Overview

• On September 11, police estimated 700–800 counter-demonstrators confronted roughly 15 people who had planned a “Schweigemarsch.”
• Because of the blockade, the registered march did not move beyond the central Luisenplatz and no procession through the city occurred.
• The city’s initial ban was overturned by the Hessian Administrative Court after the organizer appealed, allowing the event to proceed.
• Police said the person who registered the demonstration can be assigned to the right-wing scene.
• The march was billed as a memorial for the 1944 air raid that destroyed much of Darmstadt and killed more than 11,000 people, and the evening remained largely peaceful aside from a brief scuffle, with the counter-rally called by Bündnis gegen Rechts.