The rally was organized by the Center for Political Beauty; a group, which says it wants to “re-transform Europe into a continent of immigration.” The organization used the controversial slogan: "The Dead Are Coming,” while they have also made art works to spread their message.
The protest, which took place a day after UN World Refugee Day, gathered at least 5,000 people, according to police estimates. An officer told AFP that a "small number" of people were arrested for minor offences.
The activists, many of them dressed in black, carried improvised coffins, which apparently symbolize the caskets of asylum seekers who have died while trying to make their way to Europe.
“Everyone can see that we are peaceful and that we want to change something - to stop the dying [of migrants] in the Mediterranean Sea,” one of protestors told Der Tagesspiegel newspaper.
They also managed to dig about a hundred small ‘graves’ with wooden crosses inscribed with messages such as, "Borders Kill," “Stop Deportations,” "Fortresses Fall" and the “EU kills.”
“They [the German authorities] must understand that the people dying in the Mediterranean Sea are just a part of our lives,” one of the demonstrators told RT.
Ruptly producer Belal Awad was pepper sprayed by police officers during the rally, RT’s video agency said on Twitter.