Clashes continued across Noumea and other cities in New Caledonia, with protests and other demonstrations happening at several locations across the islands [below]. Clashes also occurred at the Plum/Yaté junction, with other blockades occurring across the islands.
Hundreds of immigrants in Spain gathered at the Government Delegation in Madrid on International Migrants’ Day to protest against the collapse of the processing rate for immigration applications, calling on the government to have a more welcoming policy towards migrants.
Members of the Anarchist Political Organization and the anarchist Cycle of Fire organization dropped a banner in Athens demanding protection and PPE for prisoners, or their immediate release from prisons for the remainder of the pandemic.
Hundreds of protesters in Santiago took to the streets to demand free tuition for all university students, starting off the day by placing barricades in the Pudahuel commune. Demonstrators then marched to Plaza Dignidad, where they were subjected to intense repression by police who used water cannons and tear gas on the crowd that had been peaceful until then.
About 250 anarchists and environmentalists gathered at the Dannenrod activist-occupied forest in Germany to block deforestation crews from carrying out their operation. The German police had often harmed activists that were protecting the forest, cutting rope and making many of them fall, sometimes sustaining injuries too.
