Despite weeks of calls on the Internet, fewer participants than expected came to demonstrations against compulsory vaccination in Berlin. The police spoke of around 1,500 demonstrators in various groups on Wednesday afternoon around the largely cordoned-off government district in the city center. The authorities had expected up to ten thousand people. At the same time, the Bundestag debated the subject in the Reichstag building.
1,600 police officers were deployed, some of them from other federal states. Because the demonstrators had not registered their rallies and a considerable number were not wearing corona masks, the police found many personal details and took reports. There was talk of 25 provisionally arrested, but this was still a preliminary number.
Overall, the demonstrations “largely trouble-free” run, said a police spokeswoman.