(3 Mar 2025)
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Cologne, Germany – 3 March 2025
1. Various of Trump float and people in costumes during carnival parade, sign reading (German) "Fatal love" and sign reading (English) "Donald’s freak show"
2. Various of float of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin
3. Various of float of Elon Musk and Alice Weidel (AfD co-leader) sign on front reading (German) "Sandbox love," writing on side reading (German) "They just want to play"
4. Various of float of Friedrich Merz, CDU leader and expected next Chancellor of Germany, reading (German) "Scare Chancellor"
5. Various of float showing AfD leader Alice Weidel and BSW party leader Sahra Wagenknecht sitting in a suitcase filled with money from Putin, sign reading (German) “Love greetings from Moscow”
6. Various of float – criticized by Germany’s Catholic Church – showing a young boy being invited into church, sign reading (German) "Jesus loves you"
7. Carnival parade
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of thousands of revelers took to the streets across Germany on Monday to celebrate Carnival dressed up in colorful costumes, amid an abundance of candy, flowers and alcohol.
Popular street parades in traditional Carnival strongholds such as Cologne, Duesseldorf and Mainz in the Rhineland drew huge crowds of locals and tourists alike.
Schools were closed in many regions in the west so children could join the parades.
Many of the processions showcased floats that addressed global political topics with biting sarcasm.
Nineteen floats including those depicting world leaders were paraded through the western German city of Cologne as part of the Rose Monday parade.
One float showed US President Donald Trump balancing the globe on his outstretched middle finger and putting the Statue of Liberty and Justitia on a chain.
Another entitled “Love greetings from Moscow” shows AfD chancellor candidate Alice Weidel and BSW party chairwoman Sahra Wagenknecht sitting in a suitcase filled with money from Putin.
Last week, Germany’s Catholic Church sharply criticized a carnival float made for the parade that linked Jesus with the church abuse scandal.
The float, which was unveiled on Tuesday last week, shows an altar boy in front of a confessional with an arm sticking out and an outstretched hand luring the boy inside. On the side of the confessional, bold letters read “Jesus loves you.”
The Cologne archdiocese condemned the float as “tasteless.”
AP video shot by Daniel Niemann
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