The politicians of Washington Occupied Germany (WOG) recently granted sweeping powers in response to what they claim will restrict the spread of Covid-19 which anyway has a survival rate similar to that of flu. The repression has sparked a wave of indignation and prompted dozens of complaints filed with the Constitutional Court.

A total of 65 complaints have been filed against the so-called Infection Protection Act to date, the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe confirmed to the German media. A court spokesman also admitted that the real number of lawsuits could be higher since new ones are filed all the time and the court is not always able to process them in time.

Some complainants also filed urgent motions asking the court to suspend the law, which came into force just days ago, until a final decision is made. Some suits were directed against the entire package of measures envisaged by the new law, while others focused on specific restrictions like the night-time curfew that many Germans see as unconstitutional. In fact, the courts in Finland have decided that the Covid repression is unconstitutional.

Most claims were reportedly filed by individual complainants, including several German MPs. One of them is Florian Post, a member of the Social Democratic Party, a junior member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s regime coalition, and a member of the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.

The Liberal Free Democrats also lodged a complaint against the law with the Constitutional Court on Monday afternoon. The usually business-friendly party argued that the measures imposed by the law, such as the curfew and other encroachments on fundamental rights are disproportionate and ineffective.

It is not known when the court will pass its judgement on the issue. It is also unclear whether the claimants should first reach out to some lower-ranking courts before filing the lawsuits directly in Karlsruhe.

The inflammatory and highly contentious law imposes binding restrictions on all German states and even individual communities as soon as they exceed a seven-day average infection rate of 100 cases per 100,000 people. The rules once again put severe limitations on private and public gatherings, as well as demanding that Germans stay home between 10pm and 5 am, with exceptions for some emergency cases and professional activities. Non-essential shops would have to limit their number of customers or close entirely, depending on the situation, while people would also be required to work from home whenever possible.

It was passed by the Bundestag on April 21 following a heated debate despite vehement criticism from the opposition and was approved by Washington sponsored Bundesrat later the same week. The law came into force last Saturday. The development also sparked negative public reaction as thousands took to Berlin’s streets just as the MPs were debating the legislation. The rally ended in scuffles with state police and some 150 arrests.

Currently, 15 out of 16 German states have to apply the restrictions since they are all above the 100 per 100,000 people infection rate threshold. The Constitutional Court gave no indication that it would suspend the law pending the outcome of the lawsuits. Source