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[โ€“] horse@feddit.de 57 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No idea where they got the 100,000 figure. There were several cities that had significantly more than that on their own. Munich had ~200,000 and Berlin had ~350,000 just to name two. Several cities were well into the tens of thousands too. The real number is more likely closer to a million people protesting throughout Germany this weekend. Additionally there were also protests during the week with tens of thousands of people joining.

[โ€“] Sodis@feddit.de 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's mostly the difference between police reported numbers and the ones from organizers. For Hamburg the police number is 50k, while the organizers said 160k for example. That's why they wrote "more than 100k" everywhere. But I agree, that it's really lowballing the extent of the demonstrations.

[โ€“] Sidyctism@feddit.de 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Still, even if we take just police numbers, Then bremen (45k) and hamburg (50k, massive lowball) already reach pretty much 100k. if you take into account all the other 20k+ demonstrations happening, and the other really big ones like berlin and munich, this isnt just a conservative estimate, its outright dishonest

[โ€“] berber@lemmy.chaos.berlin 3 points 9 months ago

and munich 100k was already the police estimate afaik