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Fireworks in Chemnitz (archive image)
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Administrative courts have confirmed the corona-related firecracker bans in the Saxon cities of Dresden and Chemnitz by means of an urgent decision.
The aim of the ban is to prevent people from gathering and to reduce contacts.
"That also applies to private space," said the Dresden Administrative Court in support of the grounds - it rejected an urgent application against the regulation in the city's general decree.
The Chemnitz Administrative Court did not follow a similar application either.
The Dresden judges explained that private fireworks could also be an incentive for other people to go to lookout points.
Like their colleagues in Chemnitz, they rated the ban on firecrackers as a relatively minor impairment of the individual's freedom of action in comparison to considerable health risks for a large number of people.
The judges also argued that common injuries caused by fireworks could put the clinics, which were already heavily burdened by the corona pandemic, into further distress.
The cities of Dresden and Chemnitz have prohibited the carrying and setting off of fireworks.
Elsewhere in Saxony this is handled more loosely: only the sale of fireworks is prohibited, not the burning of existing fireworks and rockets.
According to the Dresden Administrative Court, a total of five urgent motions against the ban on firecrackers have been received in the state capital.
A decision is still pending in the four other proceedings.
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