Germany: Successful Falun Dafa Information Day was held in Düsseldorf

For years, Falun Gong practitioners from Düsseldorf and nearby cities have held Falun Dafa Information Days and other kinds of activities. On Saturday the 23rd of October 2004, after careful planning by Düsseldorf practitioners, a Falun Dafa Information Day was held again in a city centre square, located in the busiest commercial area adjacent to King’s Avenue. Practitioners from nearby cities also came to join this activity.

Our information desk was placed near the main entrance of an underground junction. This Saturday, there was an international commercial exposition taking place nearby and it was even busier than it usually is at weekends. The street was very crowded and people flooded past like waves. People were in a rush to pass our information desk and only a few people stopped to look at our display boards, many people refused to accept leaflets and it was also raining a little. Facing this situation, practitioners started to send righteous thought immediately and since then the situation changed greatly. Lots of visitors started to come to have a look at our information desk, watch the exercises demonstration, read the display boards carefully, listen to practitioners’ explanation of Falun Gong and what is happening in China and sign the petition calling for an end to the persecution.

When practitioners were demonstrating the five sets of Falun Gong exercises, a reporter from one of the local news papers appeared, he was passing by chance with his camera and attracted by the exercise demonstrations. He thus approached the information desk and took shots of the demonstration and information desk for over ten minutes before he left.

Practitioners cooperated well in order to make all the activities of the information day a success. In this metropolitan city there are many different ethnic groups speaking in different languages. The practitioners overcame this by talking to people in German, Chinese, English, Japanese as well as Russian, and distributing leaflets in different languages.