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POLICE have been condemned for brutality after attacking a peaceful demonstraton in the capital Berlin with pepper spray after communist groups gathered for the annual commemoration of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.
Some 3,000 people attended Sunday’s annual march despite coronavirus restrictions; the official ceremony has been delayed until March by the German parliament’s Die Linke party.
Police held the march at the capital’s Frankfurter Tor for more than an hour, warning the group over the display of Free German Youth (FDJ) flags, which they insisted was prohibited. But organisers highlighted that FDJ flags had been displayed on a march as recently as October, with no intervention from the German authorities.
NICK WRIGHT returns to Berlin and finds a city in darkness and political turmoil
The decision highlights the tension between freedom of expression and the state’s role in shaping historical memory at former concentration camps, reports LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
