Overview

• Police estimated around 5,000 marchers, while organizers claimed nearly 10,000 participants, mobilizing under the slogan “Jetzt erst recht – Antifaschismus ist notwendig!”
• The procession route was shortened due to sweltering 37°C temperatures, and some participants used flares and fireworks, leading to five recorded offenses.
• Three police officers were injured, two of them lightly, during isolated pyrotechnic incidents, but authorities reported no major clashes.
• Rally-goers urged solidarity with nonbinary Antifa activist Maja T., who has been on hunger strike for 12 days in Hungarian custody ahead of her trial for alleged attacks on right-wing extremists.
• Linke MEP Martin Schirdewan and other critics pressed Chancellor Merz’s government for action after the Federal Constitutional Court deemed her extradition to Hungary unlawful.