{"id":211363,"date":"2020-08-02T08:46:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T08:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=211363"},"modified":"2020-08-04T06:01:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T06:01:36","slug":"thousands-march-in-berlin-against-coronavirus-clampdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=211363","title":{"rendered":"Thousands March in Berlin Against Coronavirus Clampdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>A dense crowd marched through downtown Berlin from the Bradenburg Gate ahead of a wide boulevard rally\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Protesters defied social distancing measures and thousands were seen without masks as they waved banners<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Officials have been easing lockdown\u00a0late April there are fears of a second wave amid rising infections<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Alice Cachia for Mail Online and Associated Press \u2013 Aug 1, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_211364\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Berlin-march-against-Coronavirus-clampdown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-211364\" class=\"wp-image-211364\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Berlin-march-against-Coronavirus-clampdown-768x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Berlin-march-against-Coronavirus-clampdown-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Berlin-march-against-Coronavirus-clampdown-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Berlin-march-against-Coronavirus-clampdown.jpg 962w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-211364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of demonstrators marched to protest the coronavirus clampdown. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Thousands of people protested <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/germany\/index.html\"><strong>Germany<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/coronavirus\/index.html\"><strong>coronavirus<\/strong><\/a> restrictions Saturday in a <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/berlin\/index.html\"><strong>Berlin<\/strong><\/a> demonstration that insisted &#8216;the end of the pandemic&#8217; has arrived.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The declaration comes as authorities voice increasing concerns about an uptick in new infections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">With few masks in sight, a dense crowd marched through downtown Berlin from the Brandenburg Gate ahead of a rally on a wide boulevard that runs through the city&#8217;s Tiergarten park.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Protesters who came from across the country held up homemade signs with slogans like &#8216;Corona, false alarm,&#8217; &#8216;We are being forced to wear a muzzle,&#8217; &#8216;Natural defense instead of vaccination&#8217; and &#8216;We are the second wave.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">They chanted, &#8216;We&#8217;re here and we&#8217;re loud, because we are being robbed of our freedom!&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Police used bullhorns to chide participants to adhere to social distancing rules and to wear masks, apparently with little success.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">They tweeted that they were preparing a criminal complaint against the rally&#8217;s organizers for failing to enforce hygiene rules.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Police estimated that about 17,000 people turned up to the march, and demonstrators were kept apart from counterprotesters, some chanting &#8216;Nazis out!&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8583397\/Thousands-protesters-join-march-against-coronavirus-measures-Germany.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large crowds of protesters ignore social-distancing rules as they join huge march against coronavirus measures in Germany<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211366,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211363\/revisions\/211366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}