Who are the anti-masks in Germany?
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Demonstration in Berlin on October 4, 2020 by people against wearing masks.
The banner reads "Unmask Yourself and Show Your Face".
SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP
By: Julien Méchaussie
4 min
It was a month ago: 38,000 people according to the police took to the streets of Berlin, double the expected number.
A big demonstration to put an end to the wearing of the mask, the measures of distancing and to denounce measures qualified as liberticides.
A paradox in a country that is doing quite well from the health crisis, with a relatively low number of deaths.
Entitled "festival of freedom and peace", this gathering presented an explosive mix: worried citizens, anti-vaccine activists, conspirators and neo-Nazis.
A protest mosaic that the extreme right is trying to recover.
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