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In the Hildburghausen district with the highest number of infections in Germany, even stricter rules have been in place since Wednesday. However, around 400 people marched through the city district that night, singing. Not only the mayor is in awe.
In Hildburghausen in Thuringia on Wednesday around 400 people marched through the city singing at an unregistered rally. The scenes unleash indignation and misunderstanding at the local and national level: it is the circle in which, according to figures from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the coronavirus spreads like nowhere else: it was the first circle in Germany to have all seven Se it had exceeded the daily incidence of 527 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants. A new color, pink, had to be introduced to the RKI map. Since Wednesday, there is a strict regulation to reduce all physical contact, with the exception of members of your own household, to the minimum absolutely necessary.
Images and videos of the procession of people chanting “Oh how beautiful that is” quickly spread on social media. The law enforcement office and the police were on duty, according to the MDR, the police had 40 officers. According to eyewitness reports, they remained in the background. The people had gathered in the town market square and then left together, most without distance or masks. On Tuesday, Telegram and Facebook groups had already written about a demonstration on Wednesday.
The mayor and citizens are puzzled
Hildburghausen Mayor Tilo Kummer (Die Linke) was “stunned” on Facebook. He wrote: “What has to happen before some understand the seriousness of the situation? Nurseries, schools, rescue stations, fire brigades have already been quarantined. Many people, especially from affected nursing homes, are struggling. currently for their lives in our district. ” He hoped that “the action of the police officers present will soon make [führt]that these ‘walks’ have an end. ”In the comments, users mostly from Hildburghausen wrote that they were embarrassed to be out of town.
One Twitter user, apparently a teacher in the Hildburghausen district, said: “Can anyone imagine how angry I am? From those ‘concerned parents’ I could have the children in emergency care tomorrow. It’s so bad for me in this moment”. . I won’t be able to change anything more positively here. “
Thuringia Minister of Culture and State Chancellor Benjamin-Immanuel Hoff has just arrived from the prime minister’s conference with Chancellor Angela Merkel to further toughen the crown’s measures when he learned of the rally. His comment on Twitter: “That the right-wing extremists known as ‘concerned parents’ marching through Hildburghausen camouflaged in the district with the highest incidence values is unbearable to look at.”
Among other things, former NPD politician Tommy Frenck obviously enthusiastically posted a series of photos and videos. Frenck, who, as a restaurateur in Hildburghausen, had offered “Führerschnitzel” for EUR 8.88, also wrote that public life had to “finally restart”.
Schools and kindergartens have been closed since Wednesday due to the high incidence in Hildburghausen. District administrator Thomas Müller (CDU) blamed the Bavarian neighborhood for the sharp increase, where relatively high numbers of corona infections were measured a few weeks ago. Additionally, many people were infected at two approved private events in the district. Infections can no longer be assigned to sources.
