Corona skeptics are calling for an end to the mask requirement for children in front of the Mittenwald town hall.
Organizers have sympathy for leading lateral thinkers in the Federal Republic.
Mittenwald
- vigils, car parade, sign demo - Michael Mannheim and some like-minded people have been campaigning against the Corona policy in Mittenwald for months.
“Sitting at home is useless”, is Mannheim's credo, which calls for protest again tomorrow, Thursday.
This time the slogan is: "We get up and show our face for our children".
Symbolically, shoes, toys or items of clothing should be placed in front of the town hall.
This is intended to underpin demands such as “No mask and test requirement in schools” and “No distance teaching”.
"Please all come in large numbers, take posters, signs, drawings by your children, rattles and anything that makes noise with you," it says on the Freiheitsboten-Oberland.de platform. The Mittenwald group around Michael Mannheim also publishes in it. The following can be read on the home page: “The Messengers of Freedom were created from an initiative by Dr. Bodo Schiffmann, whom we all appreciate very much. "This controversial doctor has been exposed in the so-called lateral thinker scene since the first lockdown, spreading conspiracy theories on the Covid 19 pandemic and is generally considered to be one of the leading figures of the German corona denier scene. The people in charge at Freiheitsboten-Oberland.de are apparently aware of this. Regarding Schiffmann, it can be read further:“Respect and appreciation for a person does not mean, however, that the opinions and views of this person should be fully adopted. The last sentence again means no distancing from the person. "
Anti-Corona activist Mannheim raves about leading lateral thinkers
But how does the Mittenwald anti-corona activist Mannheim feel about Schiffmann?
“I can't find anything objectionable,” says the qualified electrical engineer.
At the same time Mannheim admits: “It is not undisputed.” Nonetheless, the Mittenwald native states: “There is something to his cause.” Differentiation from one of the leading lateral thinkers in the republic looks different.
Incidentally, this also applies to Mannheim's assessment of the Leipzig lawyer Ralf Ludwig, another lateral thinking protagonist of the corona resistance.
"It's wonderful", Mannheim enthuses about the daily newspaper.
"You'd like to study law there."
What do the police say about the statements?
But how do the police get these sentences, which will of course be there tomorrow morning - the rally will take place between 8.30 a.m. and 10 a.m. in the park by the town hall? “So far we haven't had any problems,” says Inspection Chief Hubert Hohenleitner. At the demonstration with rattles and children's shoes, the head of the department speaks of “a new format”. Which he looks forward to with equal seriousness and calm.
It is similar with Mayor Enrico Corongiu. He is far from declaring a state of siege just because a maximum of 60 demonstrators - more have not been admitted by the district office - want to set an example in front of his office building. “I find it unhappy when things go to extremes.” In both directions. So it will be interesting to see whether the hitherto subtle tones of the Corona skeptics in Mittenwald will turn into loud shouting of lateral thinkers. Either way, the police are on duty.
