German police break up demonstration against Covid-19 restrictions

People with flags showing US President Donald Trump attend a protest rally in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany (Michael Sohn/AP)

Police ordered a protest by people opposed to Germany’s pandemic restrictions to disband after participants refused to observe social distancing rules.

Tens of thousands of people had gathered at the German capital’s Brandenburg Gate in the morning before streaming down the Unter den Linden boulevard in a show of defiance against Germany’s coronavirus prevention measures.