“Such human contempt is the opposite of commitment to peace”: Resistance to the planned human chain of Corona skeptics at Lake Constance is growing



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Opponents of the crown measures at Lake Constance want to organize a human chain next weekend. The president of the Swiss Peace Council and the three-country Easter March support organizations on Lake Constance are now calling on all people who want to make peace to stay away from “side thinkers.”

A Coronademo also took place in Zurich two weeks ago.

A Coronademo also took place in Zurich two weeks ago.

Symbolic Image: Keystone

(pd / rms / meg) Next weekend, an organization called “Querdenker” wanted to organize a “chain of peace” around Lake Constance and in the Lower Rhine Valley, in parallel to the next big Corona rally in Berlin. Spread conspiracy theories related to the pandemic.

But the Swiss team of the organizing committee rejected begging a week ago: in the three-week planning phase, OK Germany had not been able to develop a logo and provide advertising material. The announced mega-event increasingly became an “unrealizable air bubble.” Therefore, the human chain should only be organized on the German and Austrian coast during the weekend.

Now, the first organizations are distancing themselves from the planned big event: the support organizations of the Easter March of three countries on Lake Constance, which has been held every year since 1986, call on all the people who want to do peace to stay away from “lateral thinkers.”

“This does violence to the victims for the second time”

“Anyone who tries to downplay or even deny the pandemic is violating its victims a second time and making fun of all who have worked and continue to work for those affected, professionally or voluntarily,” writes Ruedi Tobler, president of the Swiss Peace Council. , in a communication. Such contempt for human beings is the opposite of a commitment to peace.

Ruedi Tobler.

Ruedi Tobler.

Image: Michael Genova

“It cannot be denied that the authorities also made mistakes in relation to the corona pandemic,” Tobler continued. Lessons can be learned from this. But the fact that an association in Switzerland called “Friends of the Constitution” had already approved the referendum against the Covid-19 law before it was dealt with in parliament clearly shows that the deniers of the pandemic do. about obstruction and not about constructive politics.

SP Kreuzlingen participates in the demonstration

The SP Kreuzlingen invites you to participate in a demonstration in Little Venice this coming weekend of October 3-4. “Freedom of expression is a very important asset,” the party wrote in a press release. Past events, for example in Berlin, have shown that such demonstrations also attract right-wing extremists and other fundamental groups. It is also said that it is important and correct to include different needs and the discourse on the proportionality of crown measures. “But it is also important and correct to visibly defend our democracy and against hatred and agitation.”

Together with “Spread love, not Crown”, an alliance of 28 parties and civic organizations from Constance, SP Kreuzlingen will send a strong signal of democracy and solidarity on 3-4 October.

The exact place and time will be given on Friday, October 2. announced on the homepage www.sp-kreuzlingen.ch from 5 pm

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