Several hundred people protested against an AfD rally in Halle on Thursday evening. With a demonstration, they responded to a call by the "Halle against the right" alliance. The alliance estimated that up to 700 people took part in the demonstration. A spokesman said that in a city like Halle, where there was a right-wing extremist attack in 2019, a party like the AfD should not spread its ideas.

The police spoke in the evening of a largely trouble-free process. In total, several hundred people attended the gatherings. At times there were traffic delays in the city, said a police spokeswoman.

According to the police, the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt held a rally under the motto "Peace, Freedom, Prosperity". The party exploits people's fears and worries about the war in Ukraine and inflation for its ideological purposes, said the spokesman for Halle gegen Rechts.

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