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According to the Thuringian Interior Minister Maier, a third of right-wing extremists are involved in demonstrations of the “lateral thinking” movement. Today’s demonstrations in Bremen and Mannheim keep the slopes busy.
According to the president of the Conference of Interior Ministers (IMK) Georg Maier, about a third of the participants in the demonstrations of the “lateral thinking” movement belong to the extreme right scene. “You can see it by the symbols and flags that appear there,” said the Thuringian Interior Minister of the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung.”
Critics of the anti-corona measures taken by the federal and state governments include vaccine opponents and conspiracy theorists, who are beginning the gray zone toward right-wing extremism. Right-wing extremists would always seek connection with other social groups such as right-wing rock, youth culture, martial arts, or the soccer fan scene. “Now right-wing extremists are smelling the morning air and the possibility of penetrating much larger layers through the ‘lateral thinking’ protest movement,” Maier warned on the occasion of the fall meeting of the conference of government ministers. inside next week.
Maier calls for stricter controls
The SPD politician spoke out in favor of the police preventing the arrival of extremists from other parts of Germany in the run-up to the “lateral thinking” demonstrations. In view of the increase in violence in the immediate vicinity of the demonstrations, Maier said that the police had to “strictly control the participants if necessary”, for example for weapons.
In addition, the protection of the constitution must stop the movement. If there is sufficient evidence that “thinking outside the box” is an unconstitutional organization, “then the Office for the Protection of the Constitution should monitor innovative ideas.” Bremen Interior Senator Ulrich Mäurer and President of the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Stephan J. Kramer, made a similar statement on Friday.
Soon a suspicious case for the protection of the constitution?
Kramer hopes the move will soon be classified as a suspect case. The background was a meeting of the organizers of the “lateral thinking” demonstrations against the crown measures with members of the Reich citizen scene in Saalfeld, he said.
It can be seen that “right-wing extremists, Reich citizens, vaccine opponents, and conspiracy fantasies” in the “lateral thinking” movement “seize the rule”, having initially appeared only as free riders. Classification as a suspicious case enables the protection of the Constitution to use intelligence services.
The Mannheim demonstration finally banned
The administrative court has finally banned the “lateral thinking” demonstrations planned in Mannheim. The court dismissed a complaint by the organizer against a ban by the Karlsruhe Administrative Court. The court justified the rejection of the complaint with contradictory and vague statements by the organizer in public about whether he seriously wanted to enforce the previously established conditions. According to the court, there are “deep doubts” in this regard.
The judges followed the opinion of the Karlsruhe Administrative Court, according to which it was expected that the plaintiff would violate the conditions at the meeting or fail to ensure compliance, which would be punishable by law. This threatens public safety, the court had announced. The decision that has now been issued cannot be challenged.
Constitutional court decides on Bremen
The Federal Constitutional Court of Karlsruhe has presented an urgent motion against the prohibition of the demonstration of “lateral thinking” in Bremen today. The request was received Friday night, court spokesman Pascal Schellenberg said. A decision must be made on the application immediately.
The demonstration, registered by the “lateral thinking421” initiative, was banned by the public order office on Tuesday. The decision was later confirmed by the Bremen Administrative Court and the Higher Administrative Court. The start of the demonstration is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. The police are on a large scale. “The basic rights of the people are of fundamental importance and should never be restricted in any way, even in a pandemic”, justified the organizers the move to Karlsruhe.
The High Administrative Court had justified its decision against the demonstration by stating that there were no more lenient means than the ban on assembling. “It would not be appropriate to impose a concept of protection and hygiene on the applicant, whose compliance is ultimately unlikely.” According to current estimates, up to 20,000 participants are expected in the demonstration under the slogan “National Festival for Peace and Freedom.”
