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AOn the shores of Lake Constance, between Little Venice and the Stadtgarten, opponents of the pandemic movement managed to join a short human chain of around 2,200 protesters at 3:30 p.m. The organizers, led by Stuttgart “side thinkers” around businessman Michael Ballweg, had planned to create a 100-kilometer human chain with 43 meeting points on Lake Constance, connecting Austria, Germany and Switzerland. But it is not about that. The human chain remains full of holes.
Most of Corona’s opponents are together on the shores of Lake Constance without a mask. Many shake hands, some use a cloth or an umbrella to keep their distance. A folder with a megaphone yells: “Close the chain, stop the arguments.” Two 19-year-old women from the greater Stuttgart area traveled to Lake Constance because they did not trust the pandemic policy of the federal and state government. “We don’t deny Corona, but the mask at school has to go. The highest mortality comes from the heat in summer. The second wave is built, the media is keeping it a secret, “says a 19-year-old woman who even worked in a Covid room earlier this year as part of her” Voluntary Social Year. “
“The school windows are opened, cold air comes in, the children get sick, there are usually too many tests, so the numbers are high,” says the woman’s 19-year-old friend. They both believe that the media and some politicians maliciously link them to right-wing extremists.
“No proof, no crown”
The clothes and habitus of anti-pandemic political protesters are reminiscent of actors in the peace movement or the “Occupy Wall Street” movement. Many older men wear leather vests and have their hair braided into gray braids. One man has brought a flag with a blue dove of peace, another a flag with the rhythm symbol. An elderly couple dance on the landing stage of the Bodensee-Schifffartsgesellschaft ferries. “No proof, no crown. IM Erika – today is payday,” reads a poster. Conspiracy theorists often refer to Chancellor Angela Merkel as an “unofficial employee” (MI) of Security. The Crown version of Helene Fischer’s hit “Breathless” blasts from the speakers: “No mask at night until the country awakens,” is this special variant of the song.
For Konstanz, a university city of 85,000 inhabitants, the Saturday and Sunday rallies are a huge drag. As a precautionary measure, the police prepared for 30,000 participants in the thirty rallies that are registered for both days, the majority, however, of left-wing defenders of pandemic politics, such as the “Alliance of Constance against lateral thinkers and extremists of right “or the broad alliance” Spread Love – not Corona “. , to which belong, for example, the SPD, the Greens, the Junge Union, the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, as well as the Evangelical Church and Caritas.
Some 300 “Spread Love, Not Crown” protesters march over and over from the city’s garden over the harbor and lakeside to the Little Venice area, which is right on the Swiss border. They yell, “Think clearly, instead of turning sideways” or “If you go with the Nazis, you don’t understand anything.” Critics of anti-pandemic policy then yell, “We love you, finally wake up.” Three times in the afternoon, so that the formation of the human chain does not occur.
In the old town and in the cathedral, other groups try to prevent the formation of the human chain. Carla Neckermann, the spokesperson for the green youth in the Konstanz district, says: “It would seem terrible to me if these human chains could form and no one points out that anti-Semitic myths are spread by lateral thinkers. Of course, it is also important to demonstrate against the denial of the crown pandemic, here freedom of expression is abused to the detriment of the sick and the weak. “
The counter-demonstration also has something to say: participants hold up their banners with the inscription “No solidarity with racism and fascism.”
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The city of Constance has banned the Reich war flag and symbols relating the content to the crimes of National Socialism by ordinance. These flags cannot be seen on the shore of Lake Constance. However, not far from the Bodensee ferry pier, employees of the right-wing populist magazine “Compact” set up a booth. They hand out flags of lateral thinkers. According to information from the city of Constanza at night, 2,200 people joined the human chain in the urban area, and it is said that around 11,000 opponents of the pandemic policy participated in the human chain in the lake.
