The SPD health expert and member of the Bundestag, Karl Lauterbach, calls for a mask to be mandatory in Berlin's Volkspark Hasenheide and on Brussels Square in Cologne. It is also crucial that this is "consistently monitored".
Recently, there have been repeated illegal parties in the Hasenheide park, for example last weekend when the police broke up a meeting with 200 participants in the early morning. There were also gatherings of people on Brussels Square where the Corona rules were disregarded.
The Saarland Prime Minister Tobias Hans (CDU) does not rule out a tightening of the mask requirement. In any case, it "continues to make sense".
The deputy leader of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Bärbel Bas, says that the advantages of wearing a mask must be better explained to people.
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Another one of those nights that you probably only experience in Berlin, around 50 people dancing on a meadow in the dark, spontaneously arranged to meet by smartphone, some just walked by by chance, here in Hasenheide, where people celebrate when all the clubs are closed are.
At some point the police arrive, the light of their flashlights throws bright aisles into the crowd, warnings, nothing more. The group dissolves, the next meadow, the next party, that's how it goes all night, cat and mouse in Neukölln, summer in Corona times.
Next to a box is a DJ, he calls himself UME, he's been DJing in parks since the lockdown, he wants to give people "different vibes", as he says, which from his point of view also works well, everyone is dancing, some skin to skin , not a single one wears a mask, not the DJ anyway. He has a strong immune system, he says, Covid-19 is not that dangerous, what should happen?
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