{"id":1203987,"date":"2022-01-10T08:35:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T13:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1203987"},"modified":"2022-01-10T08:35:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T13:35:04","slug":"thousands-protest-lockdown-in-germany-as-rally-attendance-exceeds-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thousands-protest-lockdown-in-germany-as-rally-attendance-exceeds-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands Protest Lockdown in Germany As Rally Attendance Exceeds Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthousands-protest-lockdown-in-germany-as-rally-attendance-exceeds-expectations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1203987&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237459376-e1641729000837-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Thousands of people have once again taken to the streets in Germany to protest lockdown measures, with rally attendance in Hamburg exceeding expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Germans have once again taken to the streets on Saturday in protest of various lockdown measures in Germany, including the proposed compulsory vaccination measures now due to be debated in mid-February.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>One protest in Hamburg, in particular, is reported to have broken attendance expectations, the rally occurring shortly after the city&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/01\/05\/german-city-bans-unboosted-untested-patrons-from-restaurants\/\">banned<\/a> untested and unboosted patrons from restaurants earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/panorama\/tausende-teilnehmer-bei-demonstrationen-gegen-corona-politik-a-861383c9-9917-41ca-8c1a-c141387142cc\">report<\/a> by&nbsp;<em>Der Spiegel<\/em>, 13,700 are estimated to have attended demonstrations in Hamburg, despite it being estimated that 11,000 would turn up.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters are reported to have gathered under the motto \u201cDas Ma\u00df ist voll. H\u00e4nde weg von unseren Kindern\u201d, roughly translating idiomatically to \u201cThis is the last straw. Hands off our children\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>A preliminary investigation into suspected sedition has also been launched by authorities, after one participant was spotted wearing a Star of David with the word \u201cunvaccinated\u201d on it.<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s various&nbsp;constitution protection authorities nationwide are also keeping an eye on protests for possible \u201canti-democratic and security-endangering delegitimization of the state\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welt.de\/regionales\/hamburg\/article236129240\/Corona-Proteste-So-blickt-der-Verfassungsschutz-auf-die-Grossdemonstration-in-Hamburg.html\">according<\/a> to&nbsp;<em>Die Welt<\/em>, though authorities in Hamburg have reportedly not found evidence that extremists are at the centre of events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Hamburg, the majority of the protest is not yet extremist,\u201d admitted&nbsp;the Hamburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution. \u201cWe see right-wing extremists and citizens of the Reich [who reject the legitimacy of the Federal Republic of Germany] as followers, but so far they have not had a controlling or formative effect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.welt.de\/politik\/deutschland\/article236126826\/Corona-Demonstrationen-mit-zehntausenden-Teilnehmern-in-Deutschland.html\">Several thousand<\/a> people also gathered in&nbsp;Magdeburg, D\u00fcsseldorf, Freiburg as well as a host of other locations across Germany, in order to protest lockdown measures.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">German City Bans Unboosted, Untested Patrons from Restaurants<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zY2p02qo7x\">https:\/\/t.co\/zY2p02qo7x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1478863882454065152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Germany, under the nation\u2019s new traffic-light coalition, is looking at the possibility of implementing a vaccination mandate in a similar vein to the one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/19\/austria-unvaccinated-could-face-prison-as-country-locks-down-and-announces-vaccine-mandate\/\">promised<\/a> by the Austrian government last year.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite many politicians \u2014 including Germany\u2019s Chancellor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/01\/merkel-successor-sholz-pushes-mandatory-vaccinations-for-germans\/\">Olaf Scholz<\/a> \u2014 being in favour of the measure, proceedings on its implementation have come into some difficulty.<\/p>\n<p>While the nation initially hoped to have the measure implemented in early February or March, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stern.de\/news\/debatte-um-impfpflicht-im-bundestag-verzoegert-sich-31480284.html\">report<\/a> by AFP, delays in the writing process have meant that politicians are now only scheduled to have the first draft of any measure proposed by mid-February.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krone.at\/2599004\">one<\/a> report suggests that the measure could not be implemented in Germany before the beginning of May, at the very earliest.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians meanwhile will supposedly be able to vote on the measure when it eventually reaches the Bundestag in a way that aligns with their own personal conscience,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/\">according<\/a> to AFP, with no party in the parliament looking to enforce an official position on the measure.<\/p>\n<p>However, should a mandate pass the German legislature, those who remain unjabbed in the country may face a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/19\/austria-unvaccinated-could-face-prison-as-country-locks-down-and-announces-vaccine-mandate\/\">similar situation<\/a> as those in neighbouring Austria, where unvaccinated individuals are looking at the possibility of hefty fines, and even possible imprisonment, once a mandate comes into effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people have once again taken to the streets in Germany to protest lockdown measures, with rally attendance in Hamburg exceeding expectations. 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