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Erfurt (dpa / th) - After the Weimar District Court declared the contact restrictions imposed in the spring to be unconstitutional, the Erfurt public prosecutor's office is now taking action against this decision.
The public prosecutor's office had submitted an application to the local court for admission of a legal complaint, said the authority's spokesman, Hannes Grünseisen, on Friday in Erfurt of the German press agency.
The public prosecutor wants to achieve that the judgment of the district court with the underlying determinations is overturned.
The matter should be referred back to another judge for a new hearing and decision.
In a judgment announced on Wednesday, the district court decided that a central element of the lockdown from the spring in Thuringia was not lawful: the ban on contact.
Its order at the time was unconstitutional, it said in a message from the court.
It was "null and void".
The verdict is not yet legally binding.
In its judgment, the court argued, among other things, that the Corona Ordinance at the time was unconstitutional because the Infection Protection Act did not provide a sufficient legal basis for such far-reaching regulations as the ban on contact.
In the meantime, the law has been refined in response to such criticism, which has already been presented in the past.
In addition, the order of the ban on contact violated human dignity and was not proportionate, argued the court.
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Grünseisen said that this decision was to be "reviewed in order to further develop the law and ensure uniform jurisdiction".
This is all the more necessary because the contact restrictions continue to apply.
Uniform case law on their constitutionality is required.
The infection situation in Thuringia is now much more dramatic than in the spring of a year ago and the Free State is one of the federal states most severely affected by the pandemic.
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