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29 Aug: Yahoo News18: Berlin Covidiots Set to Hold ‘Anti-corona’ Demonstration Against Pandemic Restrictions
Thousands of coronavirus sceptics are set to descend on Berlin on Saturday for a mass protest against pandemic restrictions that was allowed to go ahead after a bitter legal battle.
Police said they will turn out in force and strictly monitor compliance with mask-wearing and social distancing, with Berlin police chief Barbara Slowik warning that if the demonstrators do not adhere to virus safety rules, police will clear the area “very quickly”.
“We will not be able or willing to watch tens of thousands assemble and create infection risks,” she added...
The ban sparked outrage from organisers and their supporters who flooded social media with angry messages vowing to protest anyway, with some even calling for violence...
The court decision to allow the protest shines a light on the battle lines being drawn up between those who are content to follow government-mandated protection measures and those who believe that governments shouldn’t be able to dictate how people live.
At the start of August, a similar “anti-corona” march in Berlin took place with 20,000 protesters, a mixture of the hard left and right, anti-vaccination campaigners, conspiracy theorists and self-described “free thinkers”...

Meanwhile, the German Hotel and Restaurant Association reported that hotels in the capital recorded noticeably more bookings for the weekend.
“We assume that the rooms were booked in connection with the demonstration,” Thomas Lengfelder, the association’s local leader, told the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper.
https://in.news.yahoo.com/berlin-covidiots-set-hold-anti-093500385.html

29 Aug: Guardian: Demonstration against coronavirus curbs gets go-ahead for German capital
7min ago: In Berlin, police, who deployed 3,000 officers to control crowds at a march expected to reach 20,000, have prepared for possible violence as activists opposed to the virus measures urge social media followers across Europe to arm themselves and gather.
Activists, angered by Berlin’s decision to ban protests after demonstrators at a recent rally failed to wear masks or keep their distance, flooded the city with thousands of applications for additional protest rallies this weekend.
“The gatherings planned by several initiatives for August 29 against the corona policy of the federal and state governments can take place,” the court ruled.

Responding to the ruling, Berlin’s interior minister, Andreas Geisel, said the court had given protesters a second chance to show they could comply with distancing measures.
“I appeal to everyone to gather in Berlin without violence,” he said.
PIC: Coronavirus skeptics march in protest against coronavirus-related restrictions and government policy on 29 August, in Berlin, Germany
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/aug/29/coronavirus-live-news-cases-continue-to-soar-in-europe-as-victoria-sees-fewest-in-two-months

MSM is doing exactly what they did re the Aug 1 Berlin protest. already predicting 20,000 or thereabouts will attend; violence might ensure. anyone who watched the FIRST FIVE MINUTES of the following know the numbers were closer to the organisers’ 1.3m than to 20,000...and, if you watched the entire 5 hours you know it was ordinary Germans from across the country and totally peaceful, until the police drummed up a little action when it was over:

Youtube: 01.08.2020 Berlin - Tag der Freiheit Live - 1,3 Millionen Menschen UNGLAUBLICH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htDrDieOgh0

1 Aug: Herald Mail Media: Berlin police break up rally as 20,000 protest virus restrictions
by Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA)
The organizers of the events said 1.3 million people had attended...
Many carried signs from the places they had come from, and the flags of different German states...
The main demonstration was held under the banner “The end of the pandemic: Freedom Day,” and organized by the initiative “Lateral Thinking 711.”...

People nationwide were mobilized for the Berlin rally, Berlin Senator Andreas Geisel told RBB radio on Friday evening...
https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/nation/berlin-police-break-up-rally-as-20-000-protest-virus-restrictions/article_3e36c408-b8ea-56b5-bc0c-b194229b12ce.html