Germany: in Berlin, tens of thousands of people demonstrate
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The procession of an AfD demonstration crosses Leipziger Straße in Berlin, Germany, this Saturday, October 8, 2022. AP - Christoph Soeder
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On the eve of important regional elections in Lower Saxony on Sunday October 9, the far-right AfD party mobilized around ten thousand people against inflation and the policy of sanctions against Russia, blamed for the explosion of the price of energy.
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With our correspondent in Berlin,
Nathalie Versieux
A compact crowd gathered in the rain in the heart of the government district.
Many men, some women and even families, like this very pale little girl who wears the sign "
no to American imperialism
", drawn by her mother.
A crowd of German flags, but also many Russian flags, waved to protest against the sanctions decreed by Westerners against the regime of Vladimir Putin.
You have to sit at a table with the Russian government and negotiate.
In any case stop delivering weapons.
Americans at home!
End US imperialism!
Energy prices need to be lowered.
The pipeline?
Why is it broken?
We send people to the moon, there are satellites everywhere and we don't know how it happened?
We are laughed at.
We can't afford anything anymore.
It can't go on like this.
AfD demonstration on energy security and inflation, in front of the Reichstag Palace, in Berlin, this Saturday, October 8, 2022. AP - Christoph Soeder
Tired of the German government, worries about the future, fear of not being able to pay heating bills, fear of war in Ukraine...
In Berlin, it is this middle class threatened with social downgrading, craftsmen, merchants, who came to cry out their anguish under the windows of Olaf Scholz.
Almost everyone we spoke to is from the former GDR.
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