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Tens of thousands pack into a protest in Hamburg against Germany's far right (apnews.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Tens of thousands gathered in Hamburg on Friday for a demonstration against the far right, and organizers said the protest was ended early because the mass of people led to safety concerns.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Final number was 160.000 people!! Even if its a high guess, thats at least double to triple of what they were planning for. Apparently some people needed medical attention and EMTs were having a hard time getting through the crowd

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

If I'm not mistaken Tagesschau reported that the organizers planned 10.000 people to attend. Let's say the 160k is a high estimate I think it's safe to say there were around 100k people so ten times more than originally planned. It's a huge win after the past few months and years where most protests in Germany were right wing protests.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You're right, i just checked. 10k planned, police says 50k, DGB Hamburg says 80k and Kazim Abaci from Verein Unternehmer ohne Grenzen says 130k.

Makes me hopeful

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Of course the police says only 50k…

Die Polizei hat kein Naziproblem, denn die Polizei hat mit nazis kein problem

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Actually, it's because police estimates are the number of people being there at the same time while organizers count people being there at all, so both numbers can be correct. Also, police said making an estimate was difficult because of the masses of people.

Not a fan of the police in general but no need to invent reasons either.