At the end of September things got heated at times at a demo in Lubmin. On Saturday there was hostility against pro-Ukraine activists again.
Lubmin (dpa/mv) – In Lubmin, people demonstrated again against the policies of the federal government. According to the police, the gathering on Saturday was significantly smaller with around 700 participants than at the end of September when around 3,500 people came.
The speakers called for peace negotiations for the war in Ukraine, the use of the German-Russian gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, an end to arms deliveries to Ukraine and the lifting of sanctions against Russia. There were several Russian flags to see. Corona policy was also criticized, as were plans to land liquefied natural gas in Lubmin. The federal government is deliberately harming Germany and must resign, it said.
Again there was an incident in connection with Ukrainian counter-demonstrators. As a police spokesman said on Saturday afternoon, a man snatched and tore up a protest sign from one of the young women. Four Ukrainians and one supporter appeared at the counter-demo. Because the woman then complained of wrist pain, the police are investigating physical injury and property damage. The man also carried a one-handed knife. Therefore, a criminal offense is also being investigated under the Assembly Act.
Already at the end of September there had been violent attacks against the Ukrainian activists from the actual demo. This time they held their vigil a little apart from the actual demo and in the immediate vicinity of several police officers. A co-organizer of the actual demo had previously invited the activists to the center of the assembly for an exchange. The women didn’t agree.
The demos in Lubmin have been criticized for, among other things, a sometimes anti-media atmosphere and connections with right-wing politics. On Saturday, a journalist was again criticized by name on stage.
According to an observer from the platform Endstation Rechts, which is close to the SPD, he did not notice any well-known people from the right-wing extremist scene, in contrast to previous demos.
According to the Ministry of the Interior, a number of participants in the lower three-digit range at the previous demos at the beginning and end of September were clearly assigned to the right-wing extremist spectrum. The ministry named the “Anklam Association of Comrades”, the “III. Weg” or the NPD and youth organization as groups. Participants from the “new phenomena of delegitimization of the state” were also added. “Z symbols” were also seen, corresponding to the symbols used by the Russian army in its attack on Ukraine.
At the end of September, Andreas Kalbitz, a former member of the AfD and the right-wing national “wing” of the party, also appeared.
The applicant for the rally, Martin Klein, has already appeared as part of the Greifswald demos against the Corona policy and ran for the party for the basis of the Schwerin state parliament in 2021. The party arose primarily from criticism of corona measures. Klein asserted on Saturday: “We are not right-wing.” However, he spoke, among other things, of the “Great Reset”. The term is part of a widespread conspiracy myth – especially in right-wing circles. Accordingly, mostly undefined “elites” are planning the conversion of society to a “New World Order”. According to the “Greifswald for All” alliance, there is concern that many in the audience apparently do not know who is organizing the demos.
