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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - Many hundreds of people demonstrated on Saturday in Stuttgart against a year of lockdown politics, school closings, isolation and bankruptcies.
After the demonstration broke up, media representatives were attacked.
A television team from Südwestrundfunk (SWR) was pelted with an object by a demo participant, as a police spokesman said in the evening.
Nobody was injured.
A spokesman for the SWR confirmed the incident.
The police saw the attack and approached the man, said the spokesman for the SWR.
The team was not reported.
To what extent the demo participant had to answer for the attack, the police spokesman could not initially say.
The police reported that other media representatives who had pitched their tents in front of the state parliament to report on the state elections were verbally attacked by the participants in the demonstration and described in chants as "lying press".
There was a "particularly heated mood", said the spokesman.
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From circles around the rally there was talk of up to 1,500 participants at the demo under the motto “Enough”.
A police spokesman only wanted to confirm that the number of participants was "well over the originally registered 750 participants".
The organizer had previously declared the meeting to be over at around 2 p.m. due to the bad weather.
The protesters then split into different elevators and walked through the city center, according to the police.
It came to the attacks on representatives of the press.
An eyewitness spoke of a "cat and mouse game" between the participants and the police.
An officer was kicked by a pedestrian walking along, it said.
Some of the police officers used pepper spray and baton.
As the police announced, 80 to 90 percent of the demonstrators had neither worn masks nor kept the prescribed minimum distance at the beginning of the demo on Schlossplatz - despite loudspeaker announcements and targeted speeches by police officers.
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The initiative “People like you and me” called for the nationwide campaign in 16 cities.
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