Around half a million people demonstrated against right-wing extremism across Germany at the weekend, according to preliminary data from the Interior Ministry. The ministry spoke of 457,000 people at 128 events. Due to the lack of figures from the states of Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Saarland, this is a provisional figure, a spokesman emphasized. According to the police, more than 150,000 people gathered on Saturday at the Reichstag building in Berlin, which houses Germany’s lower house of parliament, to demonstrate in favour of democracy and tolerance. The organizer spoke of 300,000 …