Hundreds of cars, trucks and mobile homes drove towards Bern this week to block the federal capital. The police prevented this protest against the Corona measures by blocking the city.
The Bern cantonal police spoke of “a total of over 200 vehicles”. No one knows how many cars, trucks and mobile homes really arrived from all over Switzerland on Monday. Bern was the destination of the various convoys.
From 4:00 pm, the numerous vehicles was supposed to arrive in Bern and block the city and especially the Bundesplatz. The various convoys from all over Switzerland coordinated their arrival using the “Zello” walkie-talkie app.
From Thun, Zug, Basel, Geneva, Zurich or western Switzerland, they rolled in at 80 km/h on the autobahns – deliberately at a leisurely pace in order to obstruct traffic.
The police were able to “prevent the blockade of Bern as much as possible” with a large contingent, as the Berner Zeitung reported: “In addition to the Bundesplatz, the emergency services also blocked bridges and access roads to the city.”
Occasionally, vehicle occupants were checked and were handed exit directions. What the police for their part recorded as a success in preventing a blockade of the city was indirectly a success for the Swiss “freedom convoys”, because the numerous barriers ultimately caused the security forces themselves to cause a huge blockade.
The result was traffic delays and traffic jams throughout the city, especially around the city center, including on public transport. According to the Berner Zeitung, Bernmobil had to divert bus routes 10 and 19 via Bärenplatz.
The demands of the peaceful convoy participants were the immediate abolition of Corona measures, cancellation of the health pass and the “illegal, unjustified state of emergency”.
Canadian truckers , who have been blockading Canada’s capital Ottawa for more than a week and have served as the models for the “freedom convoys” . The mayor of Ottawa declared a state of emergency on Sunday.
According to Germany daily Die Welt, thousands of protesters had descended on Ottawa again over the weekend, adding to the thousands who had stayed since last weekend, totally paralyzing downtown.
In the meantime, the Canadian freedom convoys and demonstrations have also spread to other Canadian cities, as Canadian media reported, including Toronto, Calgary, Quebec City and Vancouver.
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