Germany: Heavy repression at Rhinemetall anti-militarist demonstration
Posted: 7th September 2025
FREEDOM NEWS – September 3, 2025 – Germany: Heavy repression at Rhinemetall anti-militarist demonstration
Hundreds arrested in a mass kettle of march closing action camp against the arms industry
Police in Cologne, Germany used heavy handed tactics on Saturday (30 August) against a peaceful mass march concluding an anti-militarist camp in the city. The 3,000-strong parade had set out from the “Rheinmetall Entwaffen” antimilitarist camp to meet the yearly rally of the Cologne Peace Forum. One participant described the event as “a historic moment when the few hundred, mostly older participants of this rally watched hundreds, mostly younger people from the camp, who had travelled from both near and far”.
Yet the march was not allowed to continue uninterrupted, as marchers were set upon by around 1,600 police in full riot gear, backed by water cannons and armed with pepper spray. …