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A federal police patrol runs along Kollwitz-Platz in Berlin, Germany, Saturday Oct24, 2020 As part of corona restrictions, many police officers checked overnight that curfew and contact restrictions were being observed (Paul Zinken / dpa via AP)
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Police in Berlin, Germany broke up what they described as a ‘fetish party’ made up of more than 600 people on Saturday for violating COVID-19 restrictions
Police tweeted that the party, held in Berlin’s Mitte district, « likely ended unsatisfactorily » for the guests
Although the rally was held outside, police said the crowd was too small for people to get away socially, BBC reports
Two separate police forces, including federal riot police, collaborated to end the party and let attendees know it was time to go home, according to the tweet.
Although the police did not name the organizers in their tweet, the Alte Munze, a performance hall and club in Mitte posted a statement on their Facebook and website on Saturday in response to the police tweet, saying that « an open-air event took place at the ‘3,500 square meter’ yard in accordance with the current Berlin state hygiene regulations
“The event served as a meeting point for the community,” they added, “We find it reprehensible to declare this to be a fetish party”
They said they had a mask obligation and far fewer people than the 5,000 currently allowed to assemble for outdoor events in Berlin It was also expected to be the last outdoor gathering that organizers had planned for in the foreseeable future.
Für ca 600 Gäste einer Fetisch-Party in #Mitte endete diese vermutlich unbefriedigend
Wir lösten die Feier in Amtshilfe für das @BA_Mitte_Berlin auf Die Kolleg der @bpol_bepo machten anschließend nochmal deutlich, dass es Zeit ist nach Hause zu gehen # GemeinsamGegenCovid19 picTwittercom3 / sLGwp>N
Although Germany has performed better with COVID-19 than some other European countries as a whole, it is currently facing a resurgence of cases with much of Europe Germany had nearly 430,000 total confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Sunday
Berlin has accumulated the highest infection rate among the 16 German states, with 1,191 in 100,000 people contracting the virus on Saturday Since the start of the pandemic, more than 25,000 people have contracted COVID-19 in Berlin alone. p>
Saturday’s open-air rally is far from the only open-air event of less than 5,000 that was recently closed by police in Berlin on Sunday, police tweeted that around 2,000 people had gathered on Alexanderplatz square in Mitte and that « to a large extent neither the minimum distance nor the obligation to cover the mouth and nose has been observed »
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