Unregistered gatherings prohibited in parts of Landsberg and Dießen

Created: 01/22/2022, 13:20

By: Susanne Greiner

Last Monday, the Karolinen Bridge was closed when the “walk” passed.

For next Monday, the district office has partially blocked the Waitzinger Wiese - Katharinenstraße connection for unregistered meetings.

© Greiner

District - The district office has issued another general decree for next Monday, January 24th.

It states that between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. unannounced meetings in downtown Landsberg and in the inner-city area of ​​Dießen are prohibited.

The respective areas have been expanded compared to last Monday.

In Landsberg, for example, unannounced meetings are also prohibited in the Von-Kuhlmann-Straße between Augsburger Straße and Gottesangerweg, Gottesangerweg and Waitzinger Wiese in addition to the previous area.

In Dießen, the Herrenstraße and Hofmark are added to the prohibited zone.

The reasons given by the district office are the “immediate dangers to physical integrity and the safety of (moving) traffic, (...) in particular the health risk, currently primarily the risk of infection with the corona virus SARS-CoV-2 and its variants".

Looking back, the district office describes the meeting of the Monday walkers with around 50 participants in the registered counter-demonstration of the "Landsberg stays colorful" initiative on the penultimate Monday. The "walkers were booed and hissed at by the counter-demonstration and provoked with chants like "Nazis out"," the office explains. This led to verbal arguments. Last Monday, 500 "walkers" came together (the KREISBOTE reported). The minimum distance required by the police was not always maintained, and almost no masks were worn. The incident between a meeting participant and a press photographer has not yet been criminally clarified. A "walker" is said to have disagreed,that a photo was taken of him and his child. The photographer claims that he was then surrounded by a "group of "walkers" and pushed when he tried to escape and suffered a laceration on his head," the district office describes the incident.

In Dießen, unannounced walkers would also have gathered again and again on Mondays and would not have worn masks, although the minimum distance was not always maintained.

In the area of ​​Hofmark and Herrenstrasse, the participants walked on the street, which in the narrow Herrenstrasse was "both a hazard for walkers and an obstacle to the flow of traffic".

For next Monday at 5.45 p.m., the initiative “Alliance for Solidarity” will have a meeting approved by the District Office with around 250 participants registered on the main square in Landsberg and a subsequent train through the old town to the Waitzinger Wiese. In Dießen, too, the initiative “Wednesday disco/Rosa-Luxemburg-Club Dießen” registered a stationary meeting with around 100 participants at 5:45 p.m. on Untermüllerplatz. Minimum distance and mask requirement apply to both meetings. 

Because of these gatherings, it can be assumed with “sufficient probability that there will also be dangerous situations, including physical altercations through mutual provocation and insults, between the participants in the registered gatherings and the Monday walkers on January 24th, 2022 becomes" - and thus to immediate dangers for public safety and order, as the district office puts it. Therefore, the two assemblies must be spatially separated. Because the police cannot “protect two meetings that are taking place so close together in downtown Landsberg at the same time” and intervene in the event of possible escalations. The registered assemblies, which through the registration would have given the authority the opportunity to intervene in a regulatory manner,give spatial priority.

The general decree can be found on the website of the district office in the official gazette 5/2022.