Berlin protesters rally against COVID legislation
Several thousand people banging saucepans and blowing whistles gathered in central Berlin on Wednesday (November 18) to protest against Angela Merkel's plans to give her government powers to enforce restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of
the coronavirus.
Although most Germans accept the latest "lockdown light" to tackle a second wave of the coronavirus, critics say the law gives the government too much power and endangers citizens' civil rights without the approval of parliament The far-right
Alternative for Germany (AfD) has even compared it with the Enabling Act of 1933 that paved the way Hitler's Nazi dictatorship.
Protestors were neither wearing masks nor socially distanced. Police officers in riot helmets lined up to stop demonstrators getting too close to the parliament building.
