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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - A legal opinion commissioned by the state capital Stuttgart confirms the city's decision to allow the “lateral thinking” meetings on Holy Saturday.
The commune announced this on Sunday evening and quoted from the report.
The lawyer Michael Kniesel from Bonn came to the conclusion in his analysis that a ban on meetings would have been illegal.
Furthermore, it was right not to dissolve the meeting on the Cannstatter Wasen.
The protest had been registered by the "lateral thinking" movement.
On Holy Saturday, up to 15,000 people, most of them without masks and minimum distance, gathered on the Cannstatter Wasen and put the city in great need of explanations.
A ban is the last resort, argued Kniesel.
Here, conditions as milder means of intervention would have been sufficient to reduce the risk of infection to an acceptable level.
The assembly authority also made such conditions.
Dissolving the event was disproportionate because of the risk of escalation.
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The debate about a ban on the Stuttgart mass protest against the Corona requirements also preoccupied state politics on Monday.
In addition to Interior Minister Thomas Strobl (CDU) and Social Affairs Minister Manne Lucha (Greens), Stuttgart's Lord Mayor Frank Nopper (CDU) will also speak in the State Parliament's Interior Committee on the dispute between the authorities on Monday.
The main question is why the protests that finally got out of hand on Holy Saturday were not banned from the outset.
While Nopper is defending permission for the demo on Holy Saturday and declaring that there was no legal action, critics from the state government also contradict him.
Last Thursday evening, the city banned two more events planned for April 17th.
The applicants had previously proven to be unreliable in terms of the right of assembly, Nopper justified the decision briefly.
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