Hundreds of thousands joined rallies in Germany against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
Protests were organized in around 100 cities, with organizers Campact and Fridays for Future estimating over 1.4 million people had gone out into the street to send a “signal against the AfD.”
In Berlin, some 100,000 people gathered to protest in the city center. Demonstrators outside the German parliament carried signs which said “no place for Nazis” and “Nazis out”.
The protests against the far right could “restore trust in democratic conduct,” Josef Schuster, the head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany. Jews in the country had felt “huge uncertainty” added to by a wave of anti-Semitic incidents following the start of the Israel-Hamas war, Schuster said.
