What Happened After the Middle-Finger Gesture at a Querdenker Rally
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- Four counterprotesters were acquitted after showing their middle fingers at a 2022 Querdenker demonstration in Hamburg.
- Courts ruled that the gesture directed at 14,000 demonstrators did not target each person individually.
- The man who filed the complaint, Reinhard S., is now appearing before the same local court in a separate proceeding.
Four people who raised their middle fingers at a Querdenker demonstration in Hamburg in 2022 were acquitted. Now, the man who reported them is appearing before the local court himself.
The incident took place during the coronavirus pandemic, when four men and women made the gesture toward a demonstration by so-called Querdenker protesters. One participant, Reinhard S., filed a complaint against them.
The Hamburg District Court and later the regional court concluded that the gesture was not aimed individually at each of the 14,000 people attending the rally. The four counterprotesters were cleared, and the case might have ended there.
Instead, the proceedings have entered a third round. Since the beginning of September, Reinhard S. has been sitting before the district court as the defendant in a case of his own. The supplied report does not state the charge against him.
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Originally published by Die Zeit in German. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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