London, Paris and Berlin witnessed demonstrations protesting the restrictions imposed to confront the Corona epidemic, and the German police did not succeed in dispersing the demonstrators despite their attempts.
Al-Jazeera correspondent said that the German police failed to disperse the demonstration that took place in Berlin, as they did not succeed in convincing the organizers to end their protests during negotiations with them.
And the Berlin police announced today, Saturday noon, that they peacefully dispersed a mass protest hours after its start due to the failure of the marchers to implement the instructions for social distancing and the use of masks.
"Unfortunately, we had no other choice. All measures taken so far have not resulted in compliance with the conditions," Berlin police said on Twitter.
Police, which deployed 3,000 of their personnel, also said that disturbances had occurred, including a fire in a container and the closure of roads, adding that 18,000 protesters prepared for possible violence after activists called on to arm themselves and to gather in Berlin.
But after the announcement of the dispersal of the demonstration, many protesters sat on the road and chanted "Resistance!" "We are the people!", A slogan used by the far right, as they sang the German national anthem.
A group of protesters threw stones and water bottles at security forces, who arrested two people, according to the police.
Police banned the protest last week, but a Berlin appeals court upheld a lower court ruling to overturn the police ban.
Yesterday, Chancellor Angela Merkel urged citizens to keep their guard against the virus, and said, "This is a serious issue ... as serious as it has ever been, and you must continue to deal with it seriously."
London and Paris
On the other hand, about a thousand protesters gathered in Trafalgar Square in London, calling for "an end to medical tyranny," and chanting slogans calling for an end to the lockdown, mandatory social distancing, and wearing masks and tracking systems.
The organizers of the demonstration, titled "Unite for Freedom", believe that the restrictions imposed by the government violate people's rights and freedoms.
For the first time in France, demonstrators gathered at Freedom Square in central Paris, expressing their rejection of the mandatory wearing of masks and other sanitary measures, and chanting slogans such as "No to the dictatorship of health" and "Let our children breathe."
The demonstrators accused the government of "manipulating people through fear" and of imposing the wearing of masks in several large cities "without any scientific justification."
Among the demonstrators were some "zero jackets" activists who expressed their solidarity with them and criticized the fact that the muzzle is not free. One of them said, "It is an additional justification for not imposing its status and making the people pay."