Protesters near the Victory Column hold a banner reading Previous NextPoliticians in Germany said they are outraged after several hundred people attempted to storm the Reichstag — Germany's parliament building in Berlin — as part of a vast protest against the country's coronavirus restrictions. The event unfolded after an estimated 38,000 people gathered in the German capital on Saturday to protest the country'scoronavirus policies. "It is shameful to have flags of the German Reich in front of Parliament," Foreign Minister Heiko Maas tweeted, following the event. "Nazi symbols and flags of the Reichsbürgers and of Imperial Germany have no place in the German Bundestag," wrote Finance Minister Olaf Scholz. Around 200 of those were detained in front of the Russian embassy, where a crowd of some 3,000 Reichsbürger supporters and far-right extremists threw stones and bottles at police.

Source: The Standard August 30, 2020 07:30 UTC