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Court allows demonstration against crown policy in Berlin
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Despite the ban on demonstrations, more and more calls to travel to Berlin
Due to the dispute over the banned large-scale demonstration against crown policy, Interior Senator Andreas Geisel warned of a conflict-ridden weekend in Berlin. There are more and more calls on the Internet to go to the capital.
Rallies against the government’s crown policy planned for Saturday in Berlin may take place. During the night, the judges suspended the ban on meetings of the Berlin police.
reThe controversial demonstration and rally against Corona’s policy may take place in Berlin on Saturday. The Higher Administrative Court of Berlin-Brandenburg confirmed in second instance early Saturday morning that the Berlin police ban will not last. This decision is now final.
The Higher Administrative Court announced that essentially two urgent decisions of the Berlin Administrative Court had been confirmed on August 28, 2020. “This means that the two bans on meetings of the police chief in Berlin are temporarily suspended for this day.”
The police prepared about 3,000 people, regardless of the outcome of the legal dispute, for a major operation over the weekend. The organizers of the 711 lateral thinking initiative had called the demonstration and expected around 22,000 participants on the Straße des 17. Juni, near the Brandenburg Gate. A longer demonstration was planned in advance through Berlin-Mitte. The authority of the police assembly had prohibited these important actions and several minor events.
The authority cited the reason for the bans that the gathering of tens of thousands of people, often without a mask or distance, posed too high a health risk for the population. This was already demonstrated by the demonstration against the Crown policy on August 1 in Berlin, during which most of the protesters consciously ignored hygiene rules.
The Berlin Administrative Court decided on Friday that the meeting could take place. He stated that there were no prerequisites for a ban. No imminent danger to public safety can be inferred from either the course of the August 1 demonstration or the critical attitude of the participants towards crown policy. The organizers presented a hygiene concept and arranged with 900 files and 100 “de-escalation kits”. The country had not properly verified the conditions for the demonstration.
The initiator of the rally, Michael Ballweg, has already described the decision of the first instance, the Berlin Administrative Court, on Friday afternoon as a “complete success”. He stressed that the demonstration must be peaceful.
The Berlin police were concerned about the “open will to use violence” formulated on the Internet, as Vice President Marco Langner put it. There are also many calls from right-wing extremists to attend the meetings.
Berlin’s red-red-green Senate and the police had to receive wide criticism due to the ban order. Interior senator Andreas Geisel (SPD) had also said about the ban on demonstrations that he did not want to accept that Berlin would once again become a stage for “Crown deniers, Reich citizens and right-wing extremists.”
