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Under the motto "Strike, occupy, expropriate!", Left-wing groups want to demonstrate in Hamburg next Sunday against the federal government's corona policy.

The organizers are expecting hundreds of participants and want to move from the Schanzenviertel to downtown Hamburg.

One wants to take to the streets with everyone, it says in an appeal, "who do not want to accept that people are sacrificed for profits despite the pandemic".

The police confirmed registration for up to 800 demonstrators.

The elevator should start at 11.15 a.m. on the shoulder blade and end at around 1.30 p.m. on Jungfernstieg.

There is still no assessment of the situation.

The last large demonstration from the left and far-left camp with several thousand participants was peaceful.

An “alliance of left groups” called for the demonstration, including representatives of the left-wing autonomous cultural center Rote Flora, antifa groups from Hamburg and the surrounding area, but also the climate protection alliance “End of Terrain” and the “Seebrücke”.

In a statement, the organizers refer to the massive economic problems that the Corona crisis triggered for many people.

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At the same time, they announced that they wanted to disrupt a “funeral march” by corona deniers and so-called lateral thinkers in downtown Hamburg, which was supposed to be held in the early afternoon.

A gigantic economic crisis is rolling towards Germany, explained the Rote Flora activist Svenja Lorelai in a message.

“Our rents have been rising for a long time, our wages have been falling, and politicians like Friedrich Merz and employers' associations are now calling for gigantic savings programs.

We will not allow the Corona crisis to be passed on to ... those who are already paying the bill under capitalism: women, migrants, workers.

Instead we ask the rich to pay. "

"Otherwise there will be riots"

The organizers also express criticism of the federal government's purchase of vaccines.

While western industrialized countries bought up considerable cans, many poor countries came away empty-handed.

“We demand the same free access to medicine and patents worldwide.

The profit orientation in the health sector must come to an end so that the focus is on people and not the profits of individual pharmaceutical companies.

Vaccine for everyone, otherwise there will be riots, ”said the Flora activist.

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It is the first time in Hamburg that the left-wing scene has taken up the subject of "Corona" and made it the motto of a demonstration.

The Hamburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution had repeatedly warned against a strategy of delimitation in recent months.

Left-wing extremists used a wide variety of ways “to be perceived as a relevant force in society and to penetrate democratic areas with their ideology”, as it says in a press release.

The Office for the Protection of the Constitution: "Anti-constitutional positions should be introduced into the overall social discourse in order to influence political decisions and the democratic discussion process." In addition, the scene wants to be accepted in bourgeois democratic circles and gain supporters.