Berlin: Activists celebrate May Day amid lockdown

About 1,000 people took to the streets of Germany’s capital on May Day to illegally vent their fury over strict coronavirus social distancing rules in place in the city. The stringent measures have been enforced since mid-March, with pressure groups growing weary of the restrictions on their personal freedoms. Centred in the city’s bohemian Kreuzberg district, the left-wing protests came on Labour Day, an annual holiday for workers’ rights. Police blocked roads around the main square in order to pre-empt