'Friedrichshain bleibt antifaschistisch'

Members of the right-wing extremist group Aktionsbündnis Berlin showed up to march from Ostkreuz Station to Lichtenberg--it didn't go as planned.

An anti-fascist sticker on the side of an ATM machine along Frankfurter Allee on Monday.

A week ago Saturday, around 60 members of the right-wing group Aktionsbündnis Berlin (Action Alliance Berlin) showed up for a planned “provocation” march through the district of Friedrichshain into a neighboring area of Lichtenberg.

According to news reports, they were met by almost 3,000 counter demonstrators who staged sit-ins at several points along the route, ultimately forcing the march to end early.

Around 3,000 people took to the streets in Berlin-Friedrichshain on Saturday in several demonstrations against the march of a right-wing extremist group. According to police reports on Sunday, around 900 participants were expected for the right-wing extremist demonstration, which started with 63 demonstrators.

[Translated from German]

Although I had heard about the march and the planned counter-demonstration on a neighborhood Signal group, I confess it had largely slipped my mind. There are a lot of p…