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Berlin (dpa / bb) - Before the start of a left-wing protest in Berlin-Friedrichshain, there were wrangling between demonstrators and police officers.

Police officers also used pepper spray and arrested some demonstrators.

The police repeatedly asked the more than a thousand participants to keep the distances to protect against corona infections.

Nevertheless, many demonstrators were huddled together.

In addition, the police removed forbidden flags of the GDR youth organization FDJ.

The flags of the Soviet Union and the radical left-wing Antifa were also displayed.

The demonstrators wanted to move from the Frankfurter Tor in Friedrichshain to the memorial at the Friedrichsfelde cemetery in Lichtenberg on Sunday morning to commemorate the murder of Communist leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in 1919.

3000 participants were registered.

Luxemburg and Liebknecht were shot dead by Freikorps soldiers in Berlin on January 15, 1919.

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Friedrichsfeld Central Cemetery

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