With a possible ban, supporters of Ukraine hope to prevent the pro-Russian motorcade planned for Sunday in Frankfurt.

According to reports, several criminal complaints were received by the assembly authority and the Frankfurt police headquarters on Wednesday.

It is pointed out that the demonstration serves to disrupt public security and order.

Specifically, reference is made to Section 140 of the Criminal Code, which punishes the reward and approval of criminal offenses – including war crimes.

Such approval is seen in the attempt to drive a convoy of vehicles through the city and downplay the Russian war of aggression, they say.

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Until late Wednesday afternoon, it remained unclear whether the Frankfurt Assembly Authority would issue a ban or allow the demonstration under certain conditions.

For example, it would be possible to change the intended route of the motorcade.

Instead of driving through the city center to the main cemetery, as desired, where flowers are to be laid on the graves of Russians who died in Frankfurt, the column could also be led around the city.

However, it is so far unclear whether the parade can even start in the planned form, because there are now several registrations for counter-protests.

The demonstrators want to occupy places along the route to prevent the elevator from there.

The police are preparing for a large-scale operation.

The officials should prevent a clash between pro-Russian forces and Ukrainians in Frankfurt.

The Interior Ministry said the police are currently observing the pro-Russian scene and are also evaluating comments on messenger services and social networks.

After the experiences with the motorcades in Berlin and Bonn one is "sensitized".

Criticism also comes from the Russian community in Hesse

The messenger service Telegram in particular is calling for a motorcade in Frankfurt to protest against alleged discrimination against Russians living in Germany.

The applicant in Frankfurt expects up to 500 vehicles.

However, there are also several petitions on the Internet that urge the rally to be banned.

As reported, Uwe Becker, the district chairman of the Frankfurt CDU, has also demanded that the city should prevent the protest, which he describes as "an expression of sympathy for Russian politics".

Criticism of the planned motorcade also comes from the Russian community in Hesse itself. For example, an alliance of Russians and Belarusians living in the Rhine-Main area who are critical of the Kremlin government wants to demonstrate.

"We mustn't leave Frankfurt to pro-war advocates who want to parade through our city with waving Russian flags," says Dimitry Peters, who is involved in the Peremen FFM group, an association of Frankfurters with Russian roots.

He accuses the participants of the motorcade of wanting to "celebrate the Russian war of aggression, the genocide and the suffering in Ukraine".

It is important to take a stand against it.

In Berlin, the pro-Russian motorcade with 450 vehicles outraged many people.

The demonstrators had hung Russian flags on their cars there.

The person who announced the rally had attached a Star of David to his vehicle, next to it was the question "Soon we too?".

Participants in the demonstration played down the war waged by the Russian army in Ukraine or even denied it.

A man called the pictures, which show numerous killed civilians in the Kiev suburb of Bucha, "fake".

Andriy Melnyk, the Ukrainian ambassador to Germany, spoke of a "motorcade of shame".