Biermann did not want to say how many police officers will be on duty to check compliance with the corona protective measures and the requirements. No counter-demo is planned so far. The rally is registered under the title “Clarification on the subject of Corona facts!” Behind the action is, among other things, the ENT doctor Bodo Schiffmann from Sinsheim, who belongs to the lateral thinking movement and who has been protesting against the federal government’s corona policy for several months. According to the Heidelberg public prosecutor, Schiffmann is suspected of having issued false certificates in at least three cases that exempt from the mask requirement. Among the speakers should also be the Youtuber Samuel Eckert and lawyer Ralf Ludwig. Schiffmann and Eckert are currently on a “Corona Info Tour” in a bus. Eckert is considered a corona denier and conspiracy theorist. For him, the official Corona information is “deliberate fraud”, contagion “a hypothesis”. There is no evidence for the existence of the coronavirus, he says.
A lateral thinking demo with 20,000 participants in Leipzig only escalated at the weekend. After numerous violations of the assembly requirements, the demo was disbanded. There were riots and arrests. Even at a lateral thinking demo on Wednesday in Hamburg, according to the police, there were numerous violations of distance and mask rules.
The lateral thinking demos go back to the Stuttgart initiative lateral thinking 711, which has been organizing demonstrations since mid-April. Her main criticism is directed against the corona restrictions, which she feels is disproportionate. The founder of the movement is the IT entrepreneur Michael Ballweg. Right-wing extremists often mingle with the participants in the lateral thinking demos.
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