There were larger gatherings in Rostock, Schwerin, Cottbus, Halle, Nuremberg, Bamberg, Augsburg and Magdeburg. Around 15,000 people protested at 20 locations in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, and around 17,300 in Thuringia. In Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg, too, the assemblies received a large number of visitors. In Rostock, the police used pepper spray because demonstrators were trying to break through barriers.
In Cologne around 1,500 demonstrators took to the streets on Monday evening, in Lübeck at two meetings almost 1,300, in Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt almost 1,800. Meanwhile, the seven-day incidence in Lübeck jumped the 1000 mark – the Hanseatic city currently has the third highest incidence in a nationwide comparison of the districts.
In an unannounced protest march, around 3,000 people marched through the city center in Cottbus. A police spokesman reported that some people from the right-wing extremist scene were among the participants. The police in Brandenburg recorded criminal charges for violating the Assembly Act at meetings that were not registered.