A series of Labor Day demonstrations in Berlin ended with clashes between protesters and police.
According to the preliminary summary of the police on Sunday morning, at least thirty police officers were injured in the clashes that took place the night before. 240 of the demonstrators who threw stones, bottles, and set fire to trash cans were detained. More than twenty meetings and demonstrations were held in the German capital on May 1. Around 30,000 people took part in the protests. There were no major disturbances at the demonstrations held during the day, and the participants also observed the infection hygiene rules due to the coronavirus epidemic (wearing a mask, keeping a distance).
The far-left scene fell to the police in the evening during a traditional movement called the Revolutionary May 1st demonstration. Order was restored around midnight, well after the curfew imposed due to the epidemic began at 10 p.m.
Far-left Labor Day demonstrations regularly end in clashes in Berlin, and police and protesters often clash in other major German cities on May Day.
The intensity of the violence that broke out in the capital on Saturday night did not reach the level experienced during the most serious riots in 2009 and 2010, a Berlin police spokesman told the regional public service media company Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB).
Source: hirado.hu
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