Migration crisis: Protesters dig mock graves in Berlin
Berlin
A protest group of 5,000 people dug mock graves in front of German parliament in Berlin to highlight Europe's deadly migration crisis, police said.
The political art group calling itself "Centre for Political Beauty" had planned to march to Chancellor Angela Merkel's offices with what it said were the corpses of dead migrants and bury them outside.
After the Berlin authorities barred them from carrying out the plan, they knocked down security barriers in front of the nearby Reichstag parliament building.
There they used shovels to dig dozens of small plots and planted wooden crosses in the grass emblazoned with slogans such as "Borders Kill" and "Fortresses Fall".
They carried three caskets with them but there were no bodies inside, a police spokesman told AFP.
Most demonstrators then complied with a police order to clear the area but a "small number" of people were detained for disturbing the peace.
Critics charge the group's project using the slogan "The Dead Are Coming" is macabre, tasteless and crosses ethical lines, but the organisers argue that it is casting the spotlight on an inhumane system.
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