Regular corona demos in Schwandorf cost the city a lot of money and effort  

Created: 01/03/2022, 4:33 PM

People demonstrate against the Corona measures in many Bavarian cities.

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Every Tuesday, the city of Schwandorf incurs costs of several hundred euros because it has to pay for the technology and order of the Corona demos on Schwandorf's market square.

Regensburg - For protests against the Corona * policy, several people occupy the Schwandorf * marketplace every Tuesday.

To do this, the building yard clears its partitions from the human rights exhibition on a regular basis - which means a lot of work for the city.

This is reported by the 

Schwandorf in the Upper Palatinate: “Pictures for the Human Rights” exhibition

The association "Pictures for the Human Rights" brought the traveling exhibition of the same name to life to commemorate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1948.  

From the prohibition of the use of force to the right to education: On a total of 30 articles, display boards by artists from all over the world were put into pictures.

The exhibition was organized by the cultural office, the youth club “K3” with the association “Pictures for the Human Rights” and the local Amnesty International group Schwandorf and can be seen there until January 10th.  

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800 euros demo costs for the city of Schwandorf

To protect against demo participants, however, the municipal building yard has to clear this exhibition on the upper market square every Tuesday.

That is the request from the police to the public order office.  

According to Peter Habermeier, deputy press spokesman for the city, “four men from the building yard with a truck are required for assembly and dismantling,” writes the

Public address systems are also provided by the city.

The reason for this is the requirement on the demo organizers to cover the entire meeting area with sound evenly and to maintain the distance requirement.

The subsequent waste disposal after the demos will be taken over by street cleaning during their regular tour.

In purely mathematical terms, that would cost the city around 800 euros.

But nobody is billed.

"The costs are billed internally," Habermeier told the newspaper.