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Counter-demonstrators in Stuttgart tried to prevent the elevator of participants in a gathering against the corona measures from moving to the Cannstatter Wasen.

"You stood or sat on the federal highway 14 and are still there," said a police spokesman.

The police will have to carry them away in an emergency because the street must be cleared.

According to the police, the conditions of the demonstration, which was on the way from Marienplatz with several hundred participants to the central rally of the so-called “lateral thinking” movement on the Cannstatter Wasen in the early afternoon, were largely not complied with.

The officers kept telling people to put on masks and keep the prescribed distances.

Police helicopters were used to document what was happening over the city area.

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In a tweet from the police it was said: “We will document violations of masks and spacing that are conclusive.” A photographer from the German Press Agency reported that there was a fair mood among the participants in the meeting on Marienplatz.

Large number of officials on site

The police are on site with several hundred officers.

"I assume that the conditions will be violated at many points today," said the spokesman for the Stuttgart police, Stefan Keilbach.

In the event of violations of the mask requirement and the prescribed intervals, the city of Stuttgart has announced that it will dissolve meetings.

In addition to several smaller gatherings in the city area, around 2500 people were expected to attend a rally for the so-called “lateral thinking” movement on the Cannstatter Wasen.

The "lateral thinking" movement and its comrades-in-arms speak out against the current Corona measures.

The movement is being observed by the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg.

Last summer, up to 10,000 people demonstrated on the Wasen.

Most recently, on March 20, a demonstration in Kassel with more than 20,000 people hit the headlines - only 6000 were allowed. There were sometimes violent clashes.