Participants hold placards during a protest in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, in Stockholm, Sweden June 3, 2020. Jonas Ekstromer/TT News Agency/via REUTERS
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Thousands of people joined a demonstration in central Stockholm on Wednesday to protest against racism in the wake of the death of George Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis, defying a ban on public gatherings of more than 50 people due to the pandemic.
Bearing signs and placards with messages such as "I can't breathe" and "Black Lives Matter", demonstrators gathered for several hours at a square in the heart of the city during the afternoon, television footage showed.
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