In Germany on May 1 in several cities there were skirmishes of demonstrators with the police.

In the Berlin district of Kreuzberg, representatives of left-wing organizations threw bottles and firecrackers into the police, attacked them with flagpoles, fired smoke bombs. Police used pepper gas, detaining about 40 people.

According to the head of the Berlin police Klaus Kandt, about 8000 people took part in the so-called "Revolutionary demonstration on May 1", and for the first time it was not registered in advance.

About 300 participants in the procession in Kreuzberg were ready for violence, about 800 people were supporting them. At the scene of the operation were about 5400 policemen. For the first time, the May Day clashes with police in Kreuzberg took place about 30 years ago, in recent years they have been on the decline.

At the same time in Kreuzberg, the traditional May holiday brought together about 200,000 people. There were no violations of the order, although the march of left radicals partially passed through the territory of the holiday. Another 14,000 people marched in a trade march in Berlin near the Brandenburg Gate.

Several thousand people gathered in the city of Halle, protesting against the pre-registered May Day action of the ultra-right, numbering about 500 people.

Police guarded the rally of radicals, there were clashes of law enforcement officers with opponents of the rally. Five policemen injured, there are victims among the demonstrators.

In Hamburg, about 2500 people took part in the march of left-wing radical groups. In Stuttgart, one policeman was injured by a wooden stick stabbing during the march of left-wing radicals. In the federal state of Thuringia, the police have taken forceful actions against right-wing hooligans. This is reported by Deutsche Welle.