He keeps to himself, ready to flee if the police suddenly crack down. He does not take off the corona mask because the facial recognition of the omnipresent surveillance cameras is then less able to identify him. Of course he's scared, says the young man, who calls himself Harry in English, in his early 20s, a student like most here. "But I just had to come," he says. "To make a mark."

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