Moenchengladbach/Leipzig.
The city of Mönchengladbach had asked the NPD to take down their election posters before the 2019 European elections. According to the judgement, that was unlawful.
The arrangement for Removal of NPD posters with the slogan “Stop the invasion: Migration kills!” in Mönchengladbach in front of the European elections 2019 was unlawful according to the court. This was announced by the Federal Administrative Court (BVG) in Leipzig on Wednesday. This corrected the previous judgments of the Düsseldorf Administrative Court and the North Rhine-Westphalia Higher Administrative Court. In the earlier instances they were Posters classified as inflammatory become.
The plaintiff, the NPD district association Mönchengladbach, had the posters in Election campaign for the European elections in May 2019 used. The city of Mönchengladbach asked the district association to remove the posters at short notice. The district association complied with this, but complained against the order. The Düsseldorf Administrative Court dismissed the lawsuit. The poster attacks the human dignity of migrants and is likely to disturb public peace, it said.
Election posters of the NPD: “Range of deviating interpretations”
After the appeal, the judgment was upheld by the Higher Administrative Court. “The election poster aims to equate all migrants with murderers, of whom Germans everywhere should be afraid,” the court said at the time.
The sixth senate of the BVG in Leipzig has now announced that the Order of the city of Mönchengladbach illegal was. According to a spokeswoman for the BVG, the complaint by the NPD district association was upheld because the courts of appeal had violated the principles of interpretation for the recording of expressions of opinion. In the case of ambiguous statements, the variants that are still covered by the freedom to express opinions must be taken as a basis. With a view to the election poster, there was a “range of deviating interpretations” that the Higher Administrative Court did not take into account. (dpa)
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