Demonstrations - Court again overturns Frankfurt demo ban
Once again, a court has overturned a ban on demonstrations in Frankfurt. On Friday, the administrative court allowed the "Stop the genocide in Gaza! Stop the occupation of Palestine!", which the city had banned on Thursday as potentially anti-Semitic.
The administrative court stated that the ban was "obviously unlawful". A ban on demonstrations can only be imposed if public safety is directly at risk. There were no indications of this. The city was "merely referring indiscriminately to experiences of previous demonstrations". However, these had subsequently proved to be incorrect. A demonstration on November 9th had gone off without a hitch until it was broken up.
Frankfurt had banned the demonstration with around 1000 registered participants as potentially anti-Semitic. The registrant had attracted attention in the past for making anti-Semitic statements. "It can be assumed with a probability bordering on certainty that punishable anti-Semitic statements, threats and actions would be made in the context of this gathering. A ban on the assembly is therefore justified and ultimately unavoidable," the reasoning states.
An appeal by the city against the administrative court's decision was rejected by the Hessian Administrative Court (VGH) late on Friday evening. According to the VGH, the city had not sufficiently demonstrated "that holding the notified assembly would result in an immediate threat to public safety, which could be effectively countered solely by banning the assembly". "The assembly can therefore take place as planned."
Rallies in connection with the Middle East conflict had already been alternately permitted and banned by various authorities on several occasions.
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- The demonstration, aimed at 'Stop the genocide in Gaza! Stop the occupation of Palestine!', was originally banned in Frankfurt, Germany, due to potential anti-Semitic sentiments, but the administrative court later overturned this decision.
- The ruling against the ban on demonstrations in Frankfurt on main was made because the city had not provided sufficient evidence that the event would pose an immediate threat to public safety.
- The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has led to various rallies in Frankfurt being both permitted and banned by various authorities on different occasions.
- Hesse's administrative court ruled that Frankfurt's ban on a demonstration in support of Palestine was "obviously unlawful" and that the city had simply referred to previous demonstrations without having concrete evidence of danger.
- Despite Frankfurt's attempts to ban the demonstration due to potential anti-Semitic statements made by the registrant, an administrative court in Hesse decided that the city did not provide enough proof of an immediate threat to public safety, allowing the event to proceed.
Source: www.stern.de
