Tens of thousands of protesters take to the streets and clash with police outside the AfD (Alternative for Germany) party conference, according to reports based on video footage. Fox News says more than 30,000 people—described as far-left protesters—gather in the area and confront officers around the venue. Police respond with anti-riot measures, including the use of batons, as the situation escalates into street fighting. Yahoo News also reports on the same incident, indicating that the protests and clashes occur in connection with AfD’s conference and that police are deployed to manage the disturbance.
Across accounts, the central points are the scale of the protest, the proximity to AfD’s conference, and the involvement of law enforcement using riot-control tactics during the clashes. The reports do not uniformly detail specific injuries, arrests, or the total extent of damage, but they consistently describe a large and violent confrontation between protesters and police at the event location.
