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Sharply criticized: the posters of asylum opponents.
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The large posters that were also used in the Waakirchen municipal area to demonstrate against the planned asylum accommodation in Marienstein and Warngau now had repercussions in the local council meeting.
Waakirchen - The committee wants to revise the municipality's poster regulations due to these posters, but also because of construction fence banners and stickers, for example on traffic signs, and has commissioned the administration to do so.
“If stickers and posters are put up everywhere, then that is damage to property.
“It’s not funny and it’s not a trivial offense,” emphasized Mayor Norbert Kerkel.
Large-scale posters and banners may only be put up with an application approved by the municipality and only if - as Michael Mohrenweiser (ABV) pointed out - they refer to events of national importance.
Third mayor Rudi Reber (ABV) also demanded that posters should be identifiable: “Everyone should stand by their opinion.” Reber spoke of a “turnaround in our behavior.”
“We have become more contentious.
Freedom of expression is part of it,” he said and called for posters with political content to be allowed as long as they do not incite violence and can be attributed to an author.
He also suggested that those who put up posters also have to ensure their road safety if they are damaged by a storm, for example.
Cornelia Riepe (Greens) saw the mixture of freedom of expression and poster regulations, which were intended to protect the town and landscape, as critical.
“There are many ways to express your opinion.
This doesn’t have to be on the walls of the community.” “Robert Engelmann (CSU) advocated individual decisions.
Caroline Marquart criticized the advertising signs on a construction fence.
However, these were approved at a building committee meeting.
The contracts with the advertising company have been terminated from August and the posters are being removed.
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