Alarm in Germany as ‘corona demos’ take off

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Alarm in Germany as ‘corona demos’ take off

Party co-chief Alexander Gauland said it was “completely correct that people are exercising their fundamental rights and demonstrating against corona measures.”

Any resulting split in society over the demonstrations should not be blamed on the protesters, but on “the sweeping vilification of participants as right-wing extremists, nutcases or conspiracy theorists,” he charged.

Sometimes violent in nature, the demonstrations have also been increasingly tinged by anti-Semitism, as participants hold aloft slogans portraying figures like billionaire financier George Soros as the bogeyman in the virus crisis.

Underlining the increasingly virulent atmosphere, a mock tombstone was found in front of Merkel’s electoral offices, apparently to decry lockdown measures.