Since April 2020, when Germany's Federal Constitutional Court ruled that the governmental lockdown imposed in March to counter the COVID-19 pandemic did not allow blanket bans on rallies, numerous pro
Collage showing protest by coronavirus-conspiracy theory believers and right-wing extremists (right) and counter-protesters (left) in Berlin, 1 August 2020
Two Saxony-Anhalt Bereitschaftspolizei Wasserwerfer 10000 water cannons in front of Dresden's central police station, 17 April 2021
Police dispersing the protesters in Berlin on 18 November with water cannon, as the pandemic prevention requirements were not observed
Protest in Mainz in front of the Theodor Heuss Bridge on 13 March 2021
Reichsbürgerbewegung or Reichsbürger are several anticonstitutional revisionist groups and individuals in Germany and elsewhere who reject the legitimacy of the modern German state, the Federal Republ
COVID-19 protests in Germany
…in January 2021, only a small number of protesters was integrating governmental pandemic policies into the theories of QAnon or the extreme-right Reichsbürger movement, which likewise was present at several rallies. In a number of instances, local authorities banned rallies as they deemed coronavirus protection plans…
Sign at the entrance of the home of a supporter of the Reichsbürger Movement. It reads: "To the German People; against BRdvD (Federal Republic of (the) United Germany); Government criminality, Justice crimes, Official Abuse ! JOIe Justice-Victim-Initiative; Collection Center ESt-RJA; Interim - Supreme Court of the Reich; Interim - Office of the Attorney General of the Reich".
2014 demonstration in Berlin