RTP 09 Nov, 2018, 15:02 / | World (thanks to Amigo de Israel blog):

The demonstration was banned by the city’s city councilor in charge of security, but a court decided to revoke the ban.

The “Night of Crystals” occurred 80 years ago – a round and fateful birthday that marks today, November 9. On that date, in 1938, Nazi regime shock troops attacked Jewish merchants’ synagogues and shops, set them on fire, destroyed assets and beaten people. Even for many supporters of the regime, it was a traumatic date that made them doubt the orderly and peaceful image that Nazism still sought to give of itself.

Today, of course, is a date that only the most assumed neo-Nazi sympathizers dare to celebrate. In order to do so, they created the ad hoc association Wir für Deutschland (“We for Germany”) and called for a “mourning” demonstration on Friday night, in which they envisaged the presence of some 250 people, with beacons, lanterns and flags.

As other demonstrations are planned, these anti-Nazis, evocative of the pogrom of 1938, the demonstration was banned by the Berlin city councilor of the Internal Administration, Social Democrat Andreas Geisel, with the consent of the police, that provides for large-scale desacato if the demonstration is by against.

According to Geisel, quoted in Der Spiegel , “I find the idea that right-wing extremists parade through the government district, possibly even with candles burning in the dark, on the 80th anniversary of Pogrom’s Night, intolerable.” He added: “We can not continue to tolerate an assumed right-wing extremism under the cover of freedom of opinion.”

The association lodged an interim measure, which was dealt with by the Administrative Court of Berlin on the pretext of freedom of assembly. According to the Court, the prohibition could only be justified if the manifestation of the extreme right had a clearly provocative meaning, against the other manifestations scheduled.

The court considered that “it is not to be expected that the announced concentrations will reach a level of aggressive and provocative behavior that intimidates citizens, through which there will be an atmosphere of proof of strength and potential disposition for violence.”