Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Soder announced strict orders last year that Bavarians were required to stay at home and could only leave in “exceptional cases.” This roughly translated to citizens being able to leave their homes only for essential reasons such as work and sustenance needs.
The Bavarian Ordinance on Protective Measures Against Infectious Diseases in Response to the Corona Pandemic required the police to check compliance with the stay-at-home restrictions, in which citizens were forced to provide “credible reasons” for being outside.
The order demanded that every individual reduce all physical and social contact with other persons, except family members living in the same household, to the absolute minimum extent possible. It also introduced a mandatory five-feet physical distancing rule.
The ruling from an Administrative Court in Ansbach has declared the
restrictions to be ineffective. In essence, the restrictions constituted
a violation of principles in German law, which forbade the introduction
of any law that disproportionately disadvantaged those who are
affected, no matter the intentions....<<<Read More>>>...
