Thu Oct 7, 2021 – 1:01 pm EDT
ANSBACH, Germany (LifeSiteNews) — A German court declared the harsh impositions of the Bavarian state government to lock down and forbid citizens from leaving home in April 2020 were illegal and unnecessary.
Last year, Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder, head of the CSU party which describes itself as Christian and conservative, announced strict orders that Bavarians were to “stay at home” and “only go outside in exceptional cases,” meaning citizens could only leave their homes for “essential reasons,” defined according to work and sustenance needs.
According to the “Bavarian Ordinance on Protective Measures Against Infectious Diseases in Response to the Corona Pandemic,” the police were required “to check compliance with the stay-at-home restrictions,” with citizens being forced to provide a “credible reason” for being outside when approached by the police.
The temporary order demanded that “[e]very individual … reduce all physical and social contacts with other persons, except for family members living in the same household, to the absolute minimum extent possible,” as well as introducing a mandatory five feet physical distancing rule.
A ruling from an Administrative Court in Ansbach has now declared that the restrictions, imposed
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