Berlin, 05 July 2023 - The GFF together with the VVN-BdA today filed a lawsuit at the Administrative Court of Berlin against the ban on an activist from leaving the country. The ban was intended to prevent the plaintiff Florian Gutsche, chairman of the VVN-BdA, from participating in an anti-fascist protest in Bulgaria. [...] The reason given by the Federal Police was that it "could not be ruled out" that the plaintiff would take part in violent riots on the fringes of the protest. The mere participation in the event could damage the "reputation of the Federal Republic".
From the GFF press release translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) and slightly edited.
Resolves NO if Gutsche wins at the Administrative Court of Berlin (Verwaltungsgericht Berlin). An appeal does not matter here.
Resolves YES if the action is ruled improper or Gutsche loses.
Close date might be extended.
1,000@marktwse Do you know whether there was actually a lawsuit filed? I seem to be unable to find anything on gesetze.berlin.de or on freiheitsrechte.org (apart from that link from the description).
Im Mai 2025 fällte das Verwaltungsgericht Berlin ein Anerkenntnisurteil und gab Gutsche Recht
However, I cannot find any news report. It should be on gesetze.berlin.de, I assume, but it is not. Maybe it takes a while until this is published? Maybe it isn't really over yet?
@marktwse Can you find the 2023 lawsuit anywhere else (except the GFF article)? I couldn't. Maybe all of this never happened?