Authorities Struggle With anti-Covid-Policy Street Walks (Spaziergänge)

While the truckers in Canada get the applause they rightfully deserve, the European anti-covid-policy protests get little attention. For weeks masses have taken to the streets of Germany and demand an end of the restrictions and mandates. The difference to your average protest march is that they are wildly decentralised and unorganised. There are known as The Street Walks (Spaziergänge, singular: Spaziergang). They carry their message not just through the big cities, but more importantly through hundreds of little towns and villages. Authorities move heaven and earth to ban the demonstrations and fine the participants. But as freedom of assembly is a human right enshrined in the constitution, there are limits to what they can do. In my video I explore those limits and walk you through the relevant laws and court precedents.

sources:
legal:
[Artikel 8 GG] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/englisch_gg.html#p0051
[§ 14 VersG: announce assemblies] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/versammlg/__14.html
[§ 13 VersG: grounds on which police can end protest] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/versammlg/__13.html
[§ 15 VersG: grounds on which local authority can ban a protest] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/versammlg/__15.html
[groups can be dispersed when highly infectious person or corpse] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ifsg/__28.html
[roaster of measurements for epidemic situation of national significance] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ifsg/__28a.html
[Brokdorf verdict] https://www.servat.unibe.ch/dfr/bv069315.html
[town Ostfildern's banning order] https://www.ostfildern.de/Politik+_+Verwaltung/Bekanntmachungen/Allgemeinverf%C3%BCgung.html
[state of Baden-Württemberg order quoted in Ostfildern banning order] https://www.baden-wuerttemberg.de/fileadmin/redaktion/dateien/PDF/Coronainfos/Corona_2022/220127_CoronaVO_konsolidierte_Fassung_ab_220128.pdf
[The disease control law protest bans quote because it entitles state authorities to act through orders] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ifsg/__32.html


[Wikipedia article about the Brokdorf Supreme Court verdict] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokdorf-Beschluss
[Koblenz banning order] https://www.koblenz.de/pressezentrale/bekanntmachungen/allgemeinverfuegung-nach-dem-versammlungsgesetz/allgemeinverfuegung-15ter-januar-2022.pdf?cid=2elx
[city of ulm sets mask mandates for time spots] https://www.ulm.de/aktuelle-meldungen/z%C3%B6a/januar-2022/stadt-erl%C3%A4sst-maskenpflicht-2022_01

[pol distance measures & walk bans] https://www.tichyseinblick.de/tichys-einblick/braucht-die-regierung-auch-ein-volk/
[hut citizen (Hutbürger) lost job] https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/hutbuerger-neuer-job-ausserhalb-der-saechsischen-polizei-15777037.html


footage:
[truck convoy Canada] https://twitter.com/MsJody_With_A_Y/status/1487919144163020806
[Protest News "Thousands of people are taking to the streets"] https://twitter.com/ProtestNews_EN/status/1476543855654801410
[BMedia "This is