RT – Jan 23, 2021
A German district court has declared a strict lockdown imposed by the government of the central state of Thuringia last spring unconstitutional, as it acquitted a person accused of violating it.
A trivial case about a man violating strict German lockdown rules by celebrating a birthday with his friends has ended up in a decision the German media described as “politically explosive.” A district court in the city of Weimar did not just acquit the defendant but also stated that the authorities themselves breached Germany’s basic law.
Thuringia’s spring lockdown was a “catastrophically wrong political decision with dramatic consequences for almost all areas of people’s lives,” the court said, justifying its decision. It particularly condemned a restriction limiting private gatherings to the members of one household and one person outside of it.
It was this regulation that a local man violated by hosting a party attended by his seven friends. Yet, the judge said that the regional government itself violated the “inviolably guaranteed human dignity” secured by Article 1 of the German basic law in the first place by imposing such restrictions.
According to the court, the government lacked sufficient legal grounds to impose the restrictions since there was no “epidemic situation of national importance” at that time and the health system was at no risk of collapsing as the Robert Koch Institute reported that the Covid-19 reproduction number had fallen below 1. The judge also ruled that the regional government had no right to introduce such far-reaching measures at all since it was up to lawmakers to do so.
The lockdown imposed in Thuringia represented “the most comprehensive and far-reaching restrictions on fundamental rights in the history of the Federal Republic,” the court said while calling the measures an attack on the “foundations of our society” that was “disproportionate.”
The decision, however, only has an effect on this specific case, which saw the defendant acquitted and freed from the need to pay a fine of €200 ($243). When it comes to any broader considerations the ruling is not legally binding, although each German court can pass a judgment on the constitutionality of orders issued by any authority other than the Bundestag or a Landtag (a regional parliament).
Still, the decision has sparked quite a stir among some officials and local media outlets as Germany currently has a pretty similar strict lockdown in place which was imposed by the federal government in November and repeatedly extended and tightened ever since.
This week, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet extended the restriction until mid-February.
Thuringia’s regional public prosecutor’s office already filed a complaint against the court ruling issued on Wednesday demanding it be reviewed and possibly overturned with the case handed over to another judge. The decision needs to be “reviewed to further develop the law and ensure unified jurisdiction” when it comes to lockdown and its violation, a spokesman of the prosecutor’s office, Hannes Gruenseisen, told the local media.
Lockdown has been a contentious topic in Germany as the nation repeatedly saw protests against the measure in various cities throughout autumn and winter 2020. At some point, the protesters even compared their struggle to the anti-Nazi resistance, sparking a scathing rebuke from the German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas.
Light from Germany once again. It began last March with Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg (broadcasted at the same time on TTS) proving that with all the data there was nothing really unusual about the death numbers with Covid compared to other flu seasons, and that lockdowns and public restrictions were not simply not warranted. Wodarg has been proven right over and over again and after he bravely stood up and challenged his government and the politically correct media, and following him other independent and equally brave experts from all over the world have come out and exposed more and more of the government fake numbers and lies. This is a real victory for all truth seekers who want open and honest government and a better world.
Ironic how all these ‘western democracies’ that are based on & profess ‘freedom & individual rights’, are more totalitarian & tyrannical than Nazism ever was for the German people.
Could this happen in the UK? Very doubtful. Will some Tory MPs challenge Boris to a leadership contest? Doubtful.
It’s great to see there are still a few judges out there who speak with sound legal and moral sense. The court in this case was absolutely right.
Anyone and everyone enforcing orders, mandates, and laws which are repugnant to common law, the basic rights of man, that which is grossly immoral and overtly tyrannical, anyone enforcing such has declared themselves to be your enemy and a direct threat to you, your families, and society at large, and they should be treated as such.
It seems resistance is building in Britain with plans for #thegreatreopening on Saturday January 30th. One woman who owns a salon in Yorkshire and has been fined £17,000 in total, and not paid anything citing the Magna Carta, says they can’t control us all when we stand up to them. She certainly seems strong enough to do it but it remains to be seen how many are strong enough to join her and reopen also.
Hmm.. Maybe those German Judges are very knowledgeable about the Nuremberg Law, & don’t want to get the same punishment as the Nazis Judges got at the Nuremberg trials ?? Swinging from the gallows ??
Happened once, can happen again ?