About 3,500 people gathered on Saturday at Alexanderplatz in central Berlin for a pro-Palestinian demonstration, the Berliner Zeitung newspaper reported, citing a police spokesman.
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“Police press secretary Anya Dirschke estimates the number of participants at 3.5 thousand people,” the publication writes.
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It is reported that the number may increase as people continue to flock to the demonstration site.
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“Our officers involved once again used loudspeakers to inform the demonstrators in the city center that denial of Israel’s right to exist, as well as anti-Semitic, hate speech, glorifying violence and terror, are punishable by law,” the Berlin police said on the social media page X .
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Police later said several protesters had climbed onto the Neptune Fountain. The police ask them to get off the fountain.
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Even later, police reported that a crowd of protesters had moved along Karl Liebknecht Street in the direction of Friedrichstrasse.
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It was previously reported that Berlin police deployed about a thousand officers to ensure law and order at Saturday’s demonstrations.
