As of: 01/17/2022 9:55 p.m
In many cities in Lower Saxony, people took to the streets again on Monday against corona policy and protective measures. There were also counter-demonstrations, the authorities said.
In Wolfsburg, 200 people commemorated the dead of the corona pandemic.
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In Wolfsburg, for example, around 680 people wanted to take part in an unregistered meeting, according to the police. Due to violations of the city’s general decree, the officials initiated 49 administrative offense proceedings. One person was temporarily taken into custody. There were also two criminal charges. At the same time, around 200 people gathered in front of the town hall to commemorate those who died in the corona pandemic. The meeting was duly reported. The participants behaved cooperatively and complied with the applicable measures.
Dozens of violations of the assembly law
Critics of the Corona measures also came together in Göttingen, Oldenburg, Celle and in the Verden district. In many places the meetings were not registered as a gathering. In many cases, the police evaluated the actions as gatherings and found dozens of administrative offenses due to the lack of FFP2 masks and distance rules under the Assembly and Infection Protection Act. In Delmenhorst, a participant in the protest is said to have driven a car towards a police officer who saved herself by jumping. Recently there had been an increase in violent riots.
Counter-demos: 600 people form a chain around the town hall in Delmenhorst
Meanwhile, the protest against the protest seems to be growing. In Delmenhorst in the evening, 600 people formed a chain around the Delmenhorst town hall against anti-democratic ideas. According to information from the NDR in Lower Saxony, around 350 people took to the streets in the north-west for vaccination. In Oldenburg, 300 people protested against the anti-corona protests. In Bad Nenndorf (Schaumburg district) the action alliance “Bad Nenndorf ist motley” has for the entire year registered for demonstrations on Mondays. Around 2,500 people gathered in Hanover on Friday for a vigil and called for solidarity, cohesion and democracy.
Interior Minister Pistorius criticizes meetings again
From the point of view of Lower Saxony’s Interior Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD), criticism of corona measures is not the goal of the Monday meetings. Many participants want to attack democracy. “There is talk of a dictatorship and fascists, there is talk of violence and conspiracies,” said Pistorius of the “New Osnabrück newspaper“. This makes it clear “that many of those who take to the streets are not actually concerned with the Corona measures, but rather with contempt and denigration of the state and democracy”. The rule of law will therefore be very careful and ” intervene wherever necessary”.
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