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Protection of the Constitution: "Think outside the box" protest could abate like Pegida
05:05:
The future of the "lateral thinking" movement is still completely open according to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
"I hope that this movement with its conspiracy theories will
fade into the background again
after the end of the
corona
pandemic," said the President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Thomas Haldenwang, in an interview with the dpa.
Such a development occurred with the xenophobic Pegida movement.
This "gradually collapsed" after the decline in the number of refugees.
The "lateral thinking" initiative originated in Stuttgart.
Your supporters have been taking to the streets against the government's corona measures for months.
The Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg recently announced that it would be observing "lateral thinking" in the south-west.
When asked whether this might soon be implemented nationwide, the BfV boss replied: "The individual lateral thinking initiatives are very heterogeneous." Right-wing extremists, Reich citizens, so-called self-administrators and "other people with anti-constitutional attitudes" are also present at their events.
A federal-state working group is in the process of considering "the relevance of conspiracy theories for the protection of the constitution and also the protest movement against the Corona measures".
Lauterbach: an advance of the corona mutation would be a "catastrophe"
3.30 a.m.:
According to the SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach, a rapid advance of the British corona mutation to Germany would cause a disaster.
"If it came now, when we are in the middle of the second wave, where we have such high case numbers, it would be a disaster. It's like if I have a fire and pour gasoline again," he said in politics -Talk of the "Bild" newspaper.
Lauterbach puts the probability that the new, allegedly much more contagious Corona variant will sooner or later come to Germany at 100 percent.
This is "another reason why we have to rigorously carry out the hard lockdown" until the number of cases is well below 50 or, better, below 25.
Then "even if the new mutation is there, you can immediately discover and end each new cluster and come back to the wave".
Child protection association for the extension of the school holidays until the end of January
02.10 a.m.: In
view of the Corona situation, the German Child Protection Association has called for the school holidays to be extended until the end of January.
For this, the summer vacation should be shortened by three weeks, said club president Heinz Hilgers of the "Rheinische Post".
It is hardly to be expected that there will be a "fundamental improvement" in the corona situation by January 10th.
Therefore, the decision about the school holidays is "now".
As part of the lockdown that applies throughout Germany, schools have largely been closed since Wednesday.
The lockdown is valid until January 10th.
According to the previous plans, the federal and state governments will probably discuss how to proceed on January 5th.
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