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The messages with which it is shared ensure that they are images taken during the demonstration against the measures of the German Government to stop the coronavirus pandemic, such as those that require the use of masks in public spaces, and which took place on August 1 in Berlin. It's a hoax. They are photographs of the anti-racism protests carried out in June in several German cities. The collage is the following: ![\\"\\"](\\" manifestation-numbers-1024x1024.jpg\\"/) ## The first of the photos was taken in Hamburg in June Through a reverse image search, we have found the first photo [number 1] published on the website of the public radio and TV channel NDR. He article is from June 7, 2020, so the photograph cannot be from the August 1 demonstration in Berlin. Furthermore, the article is titled \"Thousands of anti-racism protesters in Hamburg\", in its English translation Spanish, and attributes the photo to René Schröder. ![\\"\\"](\\" Hamburg.jpg\\")Capture of the photo published on the radio station's website and NDR TV. On René Schröder's Twitter account we have found a photograph taken from the same angle and in which we see that the elements coincide. that photo was published on June 6 and it also states that it is a demonstration against racism. ![\\"\\"](\\" VIRAL-1024x320.jpg\\") The place from which this photograph was taken is Jungfernstieg street in Hamburg. And we have also made the same photo that moves in the collage found published in a Facebook post on June 6 in which it is made reference to the massive demonstrations against racism in Hamburg that same day. Therefore, the first of the images is actually a photo of the protests against racism that occurred in June of this year after the murder at the hands of the police of the American George Floyd. ## Two other photos are from protests against racism in Berlin Another reverse image search with the second of the photos [number 2] gives us has led to a tweet also published on June 6 by the account @DPolGBerlin. In the publication he shares that same photograph with a text that It begins by saying \"currently on Alexanderplatz\". ![\\"\\"](\\" Alexanderplatz.jpg\\") We have searched by keywords in German and we have found that, in addition to in Hamburg, in Berlin there were also demonstrations against racism under the slogan \"Black Lives Matter\". Specifically, in the German capital the Protesters gathered around Alexanderplatz. In addition, the Getty Images agency also graphically documented this demonstration in the square in the center of Berlin. ![\\"\\"](\\" getty-1024x757.jpg\\"/) The search for the third photograph [number 3] has resulted in a tweet by political scientist Ian Bremmen published on June 6. In it he states that it is a protest of the \"Black Lives Matter\" movement in Berlin. In fact, it is a aerial photo of Alexanderplatz from another angle. So the second and third photographs are taken in Berlin but in June 2020 and during the anti-racism protests that took place around everyone and not on August 1 of this year. ## The last photo is from protests against racism in Cologne The fourth and last of the photos that make up this collage [number 4], at Like the previous two, we found it in a tweet published on the 6th of June in which they say it is in \"Köln\", the city of Cologne, in Germany. Also, in this Twitter thread we found a photo of the same place also from June 6. This thread also claims that the photo is from anti-racist protests in Cologne. Therefore, these four photos are not from the August 1 demonstration in Berlin against Germany's measures to stop the coronavirus pandemic. They are images of the protests held under the slogan \"Black Lives Matter\" in June 2020 in several German cities. This collage has also circulated with messages in English linking the images with the demonstration of August 1, as told by AFP Fact Check verifiers, member of the International Fact-Checking Network to which Maldita.es also belongs. In Spain it is not the first time that street photographs circulate crowded with people assuring that it is the demonstration of the 1st of August in Berlin, as we tell you here and here. 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Photos of the demonstration in Berlin on August 1 against Germany's measures to stop the coronavirus