Police and protesters clashed in Anti-Merkel rally in Hamburg,Germany.

About 230 people demonstrated against German Chancellor Angela Merkel under the slogan 'Merkel must go' on Monday, while some 800 left-wing demonstrators gathered to counter-protest.

Anti-Merkel demonstrators held signs calling on the borders to be closed and to "end the Merkel dictatorship , amid a heavy police presence.

Left-wing demonstrators chanted "We are all antifascists" and held signs condemning the far-right presence in the German Bundestag.