A total of 18 police officers were injured during the dispersal of protesters in Berlin during a rally against the introduction of measures to combat the coronavirus, which took place despite the growing number of newly infected, police said.
Three of the injured police officers were hospitalized.
The protest itself was reportedly attended by over 20,000 people.
The riots broke out when police tried to remove some of the protesters from the stage, where the group then began to move uncontrollably. Police say the organizer did not take all security measures.
The organizer says that about 1.3 million people were present at the protest.
