Around 200,000 people took to the streets in Germany on February 3, most of them in the capital Berlin, as nationwide protests against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party entered their fourth week.
Protests were also taking place in cities such as Mainz, Dresden, and Hanover, in a sign of growing alarm at strong public support for the AfD. Roughly 150,000 people flocked to the Reichstag parliament building in Berlin, where protesters gathered under the slogan "We are the Firewall" to protest against right-wing extremism and to show support for democracy.
"Whether in Eisenach, Homburg, or Berlin: in small and large cities across the country, many citizens are coming together to demonstrate against forgetting, against hatred and hate speech," Chancellor Olaf Scholz wrote on X. He said the protests were "a strong sign in favour of democracy and our constitution."
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