As the Mother Crow mask was sold, one protester shouted: "These are sacred things!"

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"Homeless people will sleep in there in the winter - the welcoming sense is guaranteed, " one protester said.

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But at Sunday's demonstration, one protester, Simon Hughes, a 25-year-old who offers English-language tours of Berlin, said there was little sense in the planned relocation.

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