Image copyright AFP Symbol caption The German rock band Die Toten Hosen performed on the live performance
Round SIXTY FIVE,000 people have attended a loose concert towards racism in the eastern German town of Chemnitz.
The the city has observed a long way-right rallies and counter-demonstrations after migrants had been identified as suspects in the fatal stabbing of a 35-yr-vintage German man past due ultimate month.
Punk and hip hop bands carried out on Monday evening beneath the slogan “there are extra of us”, in response to the a ways-proper slogan “we’re the folk”.
Many folks chanted “Nazis out”.
Organisers needed to amendment the venue to house all folks who wanted to attend.
Symbol copyright Reuters Symbol caption Sixty-5 thousand folks had been envisioned to have attended
The concert began on Monday night with a minute’s silence for the sufferer of the stabbing attack.
Soon after, a singer from the group Kraftklub addressed the group.
“we aren’t naive. we’re not below the appearance that you just cling a concert after which the world is saved,” he stated. “But on occasion it will be important to show that you’re not alone.”
on the similar time the concert was going down, local police announced that they’d arrested a person suspected of attacking a journalist all the way through a ways-proper demonstrations on Saturday.
Symbol copyright Getty Photographs Image caption Many on the concert displayed anti-Nazi indicators, while a few chanted “Nazis out”
but the live performance was no longer without its opponents.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier used to be criticised by way of a few conservatives for posting the event to his Fb web page, as considered one of the bands appearing had up to now been prosecuted for advocating some distance-left violence.
Image copyright AFP Symbol caption Attendees held signs like this one, which reads: “you are extra international to us than any refugee”
