Court: Entry ban for French people because of Corona right

Created: 12/23/2022, 2:30 p.m

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The ban on entry for a Frenchman in spring 2020, which was marked by the corona pandemic, was legal.

This was decided by the Higher Administrative Court (OVG) of Rhineland-Palatinate in a judgment published on Friday (Az.: 7 A 10719/21.OVG).

According to the court, the man wanted to go to Germany on May 2, 2020 to shop in a supermarket, but at the border an officer from the Koblenz Federal Police Headquarters verbally refused him entry.

Koblenz – The man complained about this, initially failed before the Koblenz administrative court and now also in the second instance before the OVG.

The OVG emphasized that the federal government introduced temporary controls at the border with France and restrictions on unnecessary trips from France in mid-March 2020.

According to the legal situation in the EU, despite the general freedom of movement, entry can be refused for reasons of public order, security or health if diseases with epidemic potential are involved - and that was the case with Covid-19.

At that time, the infection situation in France, especially in the Moselle department bordering Saarland, where the plaintiff lives, was particularly critical.

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