Berlin – About 900 people took part in a pro-Russian motorcade in Berlin on Sunday – just hours after the Bucha massacre was known. A car parade of shame through the German capital!
The move with several hundred vehicles was registered as an event entitled “No advertising at school – protection for Russian-speaking people, no discrimination,” according to Berlin police.
A sign read: “Stop hating Russians.” Several cars carried flags in the Russian national colors of white, blue and red.
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A video shared on Twitter shows several cars, with loud music playing. At this point, the procession is on the Märkische Allee, near the Ahrensfelde S-Bahn station.
The parade moved from the city limits in northeast Berlin to the Olympic Square in the Charlottenburg district. According to the police, the applicant was an individual. There were no incidents, a spokesman said.
Unbelievable: just hours before the parade passed through town, the Butscha massacre became known.
► Bundestag SPD member Derya Türk-Nachbaur (48) tweeted: “I’m shocked. So these people justify atrocities and war crimes? Are they using the right to demonstrate here, which people are denied in Russia, to show solidarity with an inhuman dictator? I’m sick.”
► CDU Berlin Secretary General Stefan Evers (42) commented on the photos of the Russian convoy on Twitter: “Disgusting. And this in the city of freedom.”
The Bucha Massacre
After the withdrawal of Russian troops from the area around the Ukrainian capital Kiev, photos of dead people in the recaptured town of Bucha caused horror on Sunday.
In the suburb of Bucha, after the withdrawal of the Russian army, several bodies were discovered in the streets – civilians shot, bodies buried, women who were raped before being murdered. war crimes!
Images that also deeply affected Federal Minister of Economy Robert Habeck (Greens). He now wants to tighten sanctions against Russia. “This terrible war crime cannot go unanswered,” Habeck told BILD. “I think tightening sanctions is advisable. We are preparing for this with our partners in the EU.”
A dead civilian lies on a road near Bucha
Photo: action press
Chancellor Olaf Scholz (63, SPD) spoke on Sunday of “terrible and horrible recordings” from Ukraine.
“We must relentlessly investigate these crimes committed by the Russian military. I demand that international organizations such as the International Committee of the Red Cross have access to these areas to independently document the atrocities. Perpetrators and their clients must be consistently held accountable.” The war in Ukraine “must stop”, the chancellor continued.
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Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko sends a clear demand to Germany: “There can only be one consequence for the whole world and Germany in particular: not a penny can go to Russia, it’s blood money with which people are massacred. The gas and oil embargo must come immediately”.
Klitschko accuses Russian troops of war crimes in Bucha, which was recaptured by Ukrainian soldiers. “What happened in Bucha and other suburbs of Kiev can only be described as genocide,” he told BILD.
These are cruel war crimes for which Russian President Vladimir Putin is responsible. Civilians with bandaged hands were shot dead.