Germany: Thousands of anti-racists march against right-wing AfD in Berlin

Over a thousand protesters, with organisers estimating 1,500 in attendance, joined a counter-demonstration in Berlin, Saturday, marching through the centre of Berlin to protest against racism and fascism, opposing the protest staged by the right-wing party 'Alternative fur Deutschland' (Alternative for Germany) against refugees at Alexanderplatz. Protesters, who marched from Kochstrasse to Bebelplatz, held anti-Afd banners and chanted slogans against racism and fascism. The march was called by a wide range organisations under the motto ""For a cosmopolitan Berlin - against the rally of AFD." Official figures suggest that 800,000 refugees and migrants will seek asylum in Germany in 2015.