![\\"logo\\"](\\"/img/logo-dpa-factchecking.svg\\"/) * WhatsApp service * About Us ![\\"IFCN](\\"/img/ifcn-certificate.png\\"/) ![\\"EFCSN](\\"/img/efcsn- certificate.png\\"/) # Vienna police only secured the demonstration Feb 5, 2021, 2:37 p.m. (CET) Demonstrations against the current regulations have already taken place in several cities Corona measures take place. This was also the case in Vienna last weekend. On Photos and videos of the protest are now being shared on Facebook how police officers should march together with the demonstrators. «Greatest Respect for the police officers who overboard Nehammer's loud orders "They threw them, took off their helmets and walked together with the citizens," it says for example in one of the postings (archived here). There is talk in another that the police had surrendered and were running with the people (here archived). EVALUATION: The police only secured the protest march. The Viennese Police have categorically denied reports that the officers did that supported the concerns of the demonstrators. FACTS: Despite a ban, several demonstrated in Vienna on January 31, 2021 Thousands of people against regulations to contain the corona pandemic. At According to media reports, journalists were also attacked during the riots and ten police officers injured. About the demonstration, which some participants described as a “pilgrimage” or even as Some images and videos labeled “walk” are circulating. To see is like police officers with helmets in hand in front of and between the demonstrators go. The photos and videos show the intersection of Landesgerichtsstrasse, Auerspergstrasse and Josefstädterstrasse on the border between 1st and 8th. District. For example, Café Eiles, the street sign, can be found on Google Maps Auerspergstrasse and the blue inscription “International Magazines” are good recognize. The Vienna police responded to the representation that they had attacked the demonstrators connected, responded early and clearly denied it. «Because several times The accusation came that we had "walked along" with the demonstration: As soon as If rallies are set in motion, they will always be held at the At the top, accompanied on the flanks and at the end by colleagues,” she wrote Police on Twitter on the evening of the day of the demonstration. In a second tweet, the police department specified: “Demos will take place as soon as possible accompanying them to move. If possible at the top, at the end and along the flanks! This has absolutely nothing to do with any kind of Sympathy for the content of the rally, nor which people were there to take part!” The police officers accompanied the demonstrators i.e. routinely, without supporting their concerns. The photo of Interior Minister Karl Nehammer shared in some of the postings (ÖVP) is also old and has nothing to do with the demonstration. It came into being as part of the 2019 National Council election. \--- Left: Report “The Standard”: Corona-measures-demonstrated-despite-ban-in-Vienna (archived: Google Maps image of intersection in Vienna: (archived: Tweet Police 1: (archived: Tweet Police 2: (archived: Facebook posting 1: (archived: Facebook posting 2: (archived: Video (archived): ORF article with photo of Interior Minister Karl Nehammer: (archived: \--- Contact the dpa fact check team: factcheck-oesterreich@dpa.com powered by dpa-newslab | Imprint | Privacy | About:
Demonstrations against the current Corona measures have already taken place in several cities This was also the case in Vienna last weekend Photos and videos of the protest are now being distributed on Facebook showing police officers marching together with the demonstrators Greatest respect for the police officers who threw Nehammer’s loud orders overboard took off their helmets and walked with the citizens says one of the postings archived here Another says that the police have surrendered and are running with the people