Germany: Police on alert for May Day violence
09 May 2021 |
2:38 pm
Thousands of officers were on standby as both left- and right-wing protesters took to the streets of Germany. Elsewhere, scuffles broke out at May Day protests in France, while hundreds were arrested in Turkey.
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