City council discusses resolution against Monday walks

The district administrator should ban unannounced demonstrations, the citizens should not march along - that is the content of a resolution that should be passed by the Dorfen city council.

But the SPD motion could not be included on the agenda for formal reasons.

Dorfen

– A resolution against the Monday walks was discussed in the Dorfen pandemic committee on Wednesday – but it was not up for debate for formal reasons. The SPD submitted an urgent motion on Monday that could only have been voted on when the committee was complete. But there was no city council. In the document conceived as a “joint declaration by the city councillors”, the SPD calls on District Administrator Martin Bayerstorfer to end the previous course towards Monday walkers immediately and to follow the example of the city of Munich and many districts and to close the Monday walks in the Erding district with immediate effect ban if they have not previously been notified in good time".

Bayerstorfer had stated in a press release on Tuesday: "The issuing of a general decree is currently difficult from a legal point of view." A corresponding general decree of the district of Starnberg did not last before the administrative court.

However, counterexamples such as Munich are not mentioned here.

Mayor Heinz Grundner (CSU) also asked the approval authorities “to use the legal framework as far as possible” at the meeting.

He spoke of a "mischief that one takes to deny and negate in the gray area of ​​the right to demonstrate", which has occupied the world since 2019.

Both Grundner and applicant Simone Jell-Huber (SPD) explained that it was legitimate to express criticism of corona measures – but please do so as part of a registered event. “We do not equate anti-vaccination groups with undemocratic groups. But there are undemocratic groups among them,” said Jell-Huber. It is therefore "disturbing when 300 Monday walkers move through Dorfen".

The events would be “accompanied” by the police.

And: “The participants are not bound by any conditions, do not wear masks, and organizers have not yet been named,” criticizes the SPD in the resolution.

However, anyone who properly registers a counter-rally will be subject to strict conditions.

The Monday walks would also be used by anti-democratic groups for their purposes.

"People who take part in the walks accept being instrumentalized by them," writes the SPD.

Conclusion: "As Dorfen city councillors, we distance ourselves from the Monday walks and also call on the Dorfen citizens not to take part in these walks and instead to exchange factual information about corona protection measures with each other."