© Fabian Bimmer/ReutersA left-wing protestor wearing a shirt reading: " Against Nazis " takes part in a demonstration against a Nazi demonstration, which was forbidden by authorities, in Hamburg, September 12, 2015.
A peaceful rally in the German port city of Hamburg has gathered at least 14,000 people on Saturday, according to police estimates, dpa news agency reported.
In the morning at the Central railway station, police reported a 7,500-strong rally of supporters of the leftist "Hamburger Alliance against the Right."
People who gathered on the square in front of the Town Hall were carrying bright pink balloons, as a sign of their participation in the rally "Hamburg shows its true colors." They were holding banners that read "Refugees welcome" and "Real patriots against German policy," according to the Schleswig-Holstein news portal.
"I think it is important to make a statement and to show the world what Germany is about, and that is not the right-wing section and it is not the Nazi movement," one of the protesters told RT's Peter Oliver.
Another demonstration remained under a ban on Saturday, the day when German right-wing extremists, Neo-Nazis and Hooligans against Salafists groups had scheduled to mark the "Day of German patriots." The planned 3,000-strong rally was banned by the Federal Constitutional Court on Friday evening.
© Via twitter@linksfraktionHH
About 100 people were arrested in the urban area later to be sent back to Hamburg, and a Hamburg-Bremen train with about 250 demonstrators was stopped by the police, local Weser Kurier newspaper reported Saturday. A group of 34 Neo-Nazis were taken to custody after clashes with officers, according to the police.
© Via twitter@denice_ruptlyThousands on Hamburgs street showing solidarity despite banned Rightwing demo.
Over 30,000 Danes gathered in Copenhagen to voice their support for thousands of refugees, who have chosen their country as a shelter from war, according to the police. They were shouting "Refugees are welcome," and their banners read "Europe is the closest neighbourhood to Syria," The Local reported.
Tens of thousands of Britons marched in central London, united by the "Solidarity with refugees" rally, the Guardian reported.
Prague, in its turn, confronted the EU policy of granting asylum to the rising tide of refugees, TASS news agency reported. Some 400 Czechs protested in the capital city, chanting "Stop the Islamization of Europe" and "This country is our home," and over 300 people took part in a motor race in the center of the city.
On Friday, the International Office for Migration (IOM) released the most recent figures that could characterize the refugee crisis as the biggest seen since WWII. It estimated the number of refugees who have traveled to Europe at 433,000 people, saying that many arrive in Italy and Greece by sea and later head for northern EU member states, such as Germany.
In the next few days, another 40,000 refugees are expected to cross the southern German border, thus doubling the record number reached last weekend.
"Refugees welcome"
What then, when your daughters and sisters get raped?
I don't understand why SOTT is against Christianism but supports Muslims.