“Do you just want to get rid of the trades?” After farmers, Freising’s craftsmen also criticize the policy. “There are 4,000 people taking the streets in Freising because of the law,” says Andreas Mehltretter, MP for Freising-Erding.

‘We are suffocating in bureaucracy because we are constantly accused of being criminals,’ says Christine Gruber, a craftsman from Erding.