Police used pepper spray to disperse people protesting against coronavirus curbs in the German city of Kassel, in one of the country's largest such rallies so far this year.
Several thousand people gathered at the main protest site on a square in the city centre, packed closely together without wearing face masks, an AFP reporter saw.
Scuffles erupted when a group of demonstrators tried to break through a police cordon to join up with other protesters, resulting in shoving and prompting officers to use pepper spray. "This is not what a peaceful protest looks like," North Hesse police tweeted.
Officers had used "pepper spray and batons" against protesters, police said, adding that there had been "repeated attacks" against emergency service