Around 40 heads of state and government are expected to attend the Munich Security Conference. As every year, different groups want to demonstrate for their goals on the fringes.
Munich (dpa / lby) - protests and demonstrations accompany the Munich Security Conference this weekend. Around a dozen events related to the meeting have been registered on Saturday alone. The biggest are almost simultaneously in the city center on Saturday afternoon.
The "Munich Stands Up" alliance, which protested against corona measures during the pandemic, held a demonstration through the city center from 1 p.m. with 4,000 participants. The "Alliance for action against the NATO security conference," which traditionally takes to the streets at the meeting, wants to demonstrate with around 2,300 people nearby from 12:30 p.m.
People also want to take to the streets against the Ukraine war. According to the organizers, the Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize winner Olexandra Matwijtschuk and politicians such as Anton Hofreiter (Greens), Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (FDP) and Florian Hahn (CSU) will attend a rally under the motto "Together against the war" (2 p.m.). expected.
Around 4,500 officials from Bavaria and other federal states as well as 300 federal police officers are on duty around the Munich Security Conference until Sunday.
In Munich until Sunday, 40 heads of state and government and almost 100 ministers will primarily discuss how the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine can be ended. Among others, US Vice President Kamala Harris, French President Emmanuel Macron and Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) will take part in the expert meeting on security policy.
