About a week after the “lateral thinking” demo in Leipzig, one of the organizers comes to the hospital. He has Corona and needs to be treated in the intensive care unit.
They came by the thousands, disregarded the rules of distance, many of them not wearing a mask. The number of participants was well above the permitted 16,000. There were fights. Firecrackers, rockets and smoke pots were ignited. Objects flew on the
police. The demonstration of the “lateral thinkers” on November 7th in Leipzig ended in chaos.
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After the demonstration of the Stuttgart initiative “lateral thinking”, there were arguments between participants and the police.
Image: Sebastian Willnow / dpa-Zentralbild / dpa
Now it became known: One of the co-organizers of the Leipzig “lateral thinking” demonstration was apparently with about a week after the event
Corona Admitted to a Leipzig clinic, where he later had to be artificially ventilated in the intensive care unit. That reports the Leipziger Volkszeitung. She relies on statements made by the director of the Leipzig University Clinic, Christoph Josten. “One of the well-known lateral thinkers who demonstrated in Leipzig was intubated eight days later,” said Josten on Friday afternoon at the Saxon state press conference. According to Leipziger Volkszeitung Two other independent sources confirmed the statements of the clinic director.
Co-organizer of the “lateral thinking” demo in Leipzig ends up in intensive care
The SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach spread the message on Twitter. In his tweet, he described the behavior of the “lateral thinking” demonstrators as “self-righteous” and “simply inexcusable”. Lauterbach also asked for the organization to be monitored. This is already the case in Baden-Württemberg. The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in
Baden-Wuerttemberg observed first in
Germany the movement lateral thinking 711. This refers to the movement in Stuttgart, which, however, also has other branches in the state, such as in Ulm.
As also became known on Saturday, the AfD city councilor Harald Hänisch died in Böhlen in the Leipzig district. According to media reports, the AfD city councilor Hänisch took part in large-scale demonstrations against the corona policy in Berlin and Leipzig and is then said to have contracted the corona virus. Contrary to some speculation in the social media, the deceased is not one of the co-organizers of the Leipzig “lateral thinking” demonstration who suffered from Covid-19.
The Office for the Protection of the Constitution has its eye on “lateral thinking”
The anti-Semitism commissioner of the Bavarian state government, Ludwig Spaenle (
CSU), had spoken out on Wednesday for an observation of the “lateral thinking” movement in the Free State by the constitution protection and wrote to Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU).
According to the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the “lateral thinking” movement in the Free State is very heterogeneous and a “reservoir of people who reject corona protection measures for various reasons,” said a spokesman. The range extends from “citizens who want to point out the importance of their freedoms, opponents of vaccinations, esotericists, general government skeptics to conspiracy theorists”.
The Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Bavaria has the scene and the assembly events of the movement “in view”, but has not yet observed the movement as a whole.
“Think outside the box” demonstration prohibited in Dresden
Although the coronavirus is in
Saxony spreading with full force, supporters of the “lateral thinking movement” wanted in this Saturday
Dresden demonstrate against the corona policy. This has now been forbidden by the court. After the Administrative Court of Dresden, the Higher Administrative Court of Saxony in Bautzen decided accordingly on Saturday night. The Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe has confirmed the ban on the “lateral thinking” demonstration in Dresden.
“The urgent application was rejected,” said a spokesman for the German press agency. In this case, all legal means have been exhausted and the event is finally prohibited. In the morning, the applicant filed a constitutional complaint against the ban on demonstrations against the corona policy, which had previously been confirmed by the Dresden Administrative Court and the Saxon Higher Administrative Court (OVG) Bautzen.
As the Higher Administrative Court announced early Saturday morning, the basic right to life and physical integrity outweighs the basic right to freedom of assembly. The Bautzen Higher Administrative Court came under fire a month ago when it overturned the ban on “thinking outside the box” in downtown Leipzig on November 7th.
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At the beginning of November, supporters of the “lateral thinking” movement demonstrated in Leipzig against the corona measures of politics.
Image: Sebastian Kahnert, dpa
The city of Dresden saw public safety at risk with the demonstration and feared a crowd. As a justification, the authorities stated that in past demonstrations of the “lateral thinkers” neither distance requirements nor the mask requirement were observed. The judges followed this line of argument. The state capital’s risk forecast is not objectionable.
The police are preparing for a large-scale operation regardless of court decisions. She expects the appearance of numerous hooligans and right-wing extremists. The right-wing scene had advertised the demonstration on social media. But violent left-wing extremists could also come to Dresden, it said.
Frankfurt “lateral thinking” demo: Federal Constitutional Court rejects urgent application
The Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe also submitted an urgent application for a demonstration against Corona measures in on Saturday
Frankfurt declined. This was announced by a spokesman for the court. Despite the ban by the city of Frankfurt, there were several smaller gatherings of supporters of the “lateral thinking” initiative on Saturday.
Before the Karlsruhe decision, the Hessian Administrative Court in Kassel had confirmed the city’s ban on the “lateral thinkers” demonstration. The judges justified their decision on Saturday morning with the high risk of infection. In view of the expected number of participants of around 40,000 demonstrators, it was not clear how the required minimum distances in downtown Frankfurt could be maintained.
In addition, on the Saturday before the third Advent, “a high number of passers-by who do their Christmas shopping can be expected”. The applicant had not submitted a viable hygiene concept for its meetings and rejected alternative locations offered by the city of Frankfurt. The highest administrative court in Hesse followed the decision of the administrative court in Frankfurt to prohibit the city. (AZ / dpa)
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