{"id":216238,"date":"2020-11-09T08:35:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T08:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=216238"},"modified":"2020-11-12T06:56:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T06:56:26","slug":"thousands-of-anti-lockdown-protesters-clash-with-police-in-rome-and-leipzig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=216238","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of anti-lockdown protesters clash with police in Rome and Leipzig"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>German police said demonstrators attacked them after being told to disperse<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>A crowd of 20,000 gathered to protest against new coronavirus restrictions<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Protesters in Rome were also seen gathering on Saturday against measures\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Both Italy and Germany recorded record numbers of virus cases in last 24-hours\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Chris Jewers \u2013 Daily Mail Nov 7, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_216239\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Leipzig-anti-lockdown-protest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-216239\" class=\"wp-image-216239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Leipzig-anti-lockdown-protest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Leipzig-anti-lockdown-protest.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Leipzig-anti-lockdown-protest-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-216239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leipzig anti-lockdown protest. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Thousands of anti-lockdown protesters have clashed with police in Rome and Leipzig as anger continues to grow over <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/coronavirus\/index.html\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">coronavirus<\/span><\/strong><\/a> restrictions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">German police said demonstrators attacked them in Leipzig on Saturday, after the crowd was told to disperse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;There were numerous attacks against security forces,&#8217; police tweeted while media broadcast images of projectiles and fireworks thrown at police who had established a security cordon near the city&#8217;s main train station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/italy\/index.html\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Italy<\/span><\/strong><\/a> and <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/germany\/index.html\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Germany<\/span><\/strong><\/a> have both introduced new measures in an attempt to fight the second wave of Covid-19 that is gripping Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Both countries reported their second highest ever number of new daily coronavirus cases today &#8211; for the second day running &#8211; although more tests are being done than during the first wave in the spring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Huge crowds took to the streets in Leipzig to protest against coronavirus restrictions after Germany entered a four-week partial lockdown on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Demonstrators clashed with police as they threw firecrackers amid claims from a local journalist that police had lost control of the protest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The crowd in the eastern German city was estimated to number around 20,000 and German media reported that some of those who clashed with police were members of far-right groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Some of the protesters also attacked journalists and people taking part in a counter-demonstration in Leipzig, a large student city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The police were out in force and made several arrests but the clashes continued into the evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But ignoring the dispersal orders, hundreds of people marched up one of Leipzig&#8217;s main streets shouting &#8216;Merkel must go!&#8217; and &#8216;peace, freedom, no dictatorship&#8217;, according to the German news agency DPA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8924913\/Thousands-anti-lockdown-protesters-clash-police-Rome-Leipzig.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anger grows in Europe over new restrictions to fight Covid second wave<\/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-216238","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\/216238","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=216238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216241,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216238\/revisions\/216241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}