Thousands of protesters in Berlin today, October 8, demanded from the German government to lift anti-Russian sanctions and ensure the supply of cheap energy resources from Russia, reports the TV channel ARD.
The meeting under the slogan “Energy security and protection against inflation – our country is above all” was held in the government quarter of the German capital, the protest was organized by the right-wing opposition party “Alternative for Germany. According to ARD, the event was attended by more than 4,000 citizens who disagreed with the policies of the German authorities.
“Citizens, unite against this insane government that is inciting a war against Russia,” reads the inscription on one of the posters.
As reporters noted, demonstrators chanted slogans calling for the lifting of sanctions against Russia as well as the resumption of Russian energy supplies to combat “explosive prices.”
“Whoever keeps silent today will freeze tomorrow!”, “Supply me with Russian gas,” “(Head of the German Ministry of Economics Robert) Habeck and (German Chancellor Olaf) Scholz are enemies of the people,” read the inscriptions on the banners of the protesters. Some citizens came to the event with Russian flags.
The demonstrators also called for an extension of the terms of operation of nuclear power plants and for more active diplomatic intervention by Berlin to de-escalate the conflict in Ukraine.
Earlier, several opposition parties, including the Left Party and Alternative for Germany, warned of the launch of a large-scale protest campaign in Germany to draw government attention to problems related to the effects of the energy crisis, high inflation and the conflict in Ukraine. In late August, AdG co-chairman Tino Hrupalla announced that his party intended to hold demonstrations in various cities across the country every Monday.
Thousands of thousands of protests were held, particularly on German Unity Day, celebrated on Oct. 3. According to the police, more than 10,000 people took to the streets of Gera in the federal state of Thuringia. In the center of Leipzig there was a demonstration under the slogan “For Peace, Freedom and Self-Determination,” the number of participants, according to the local police, was in the lower four-digit range.
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