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Frankfurt am Main has banned a demonstration against the Muhammad cartoons and the satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo”. Security officer Markus Frank justified the measures saying that the demonstration planned for this Saturday with up to 200 participants posed a threat to public order and security in the largest city of Hesse.
“After the incredibly brutal Islamist attacks in France and Austria, Europe is in mourning for the relatives of the victims of terrorism,” the CDU city council said. “I find it unbearable that a demonstration against the satirical magazine ‘Charlie Hebdo’ is about to take place in our liberal and cosmopolitan city. That hurts the sentiment of the relatives.”
Of course, the right to assembly and freedom of expression are a great asset, Frank said. But responsibility for social peace and the common canon of values dictated that everything possible should be done to prevent further escalation.
It is not clear whether the demonstration ban will be legally upheld in the event of a lawsuit. The Congregation Law establishes that outdoor gatherings can only be prohibited or terminated when public safety is at risk.
Brutal murder because of the Muhammad cartoons
A few days ago, in France, a teacher who had shown cartoons of Muhammad in class was brutally murdered. There was subsequently a public exchange of blows between French President Emmanuel Macron and his Turkish colleague Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
After Macron defended Mohammed’s cartoons as freedom of expression, Erdogan accused the French president of being hostile to Islam, doubting his mental health and, among other things, describing Macron as a case of illness that should be examined. In Islamic countries there were demonstrations with thousands of people and merchants took French products out of sale.
