Authority had wrongly imposed a € 600 fine on a man.
Vienna. Even if the government and many media communicated it differently for a long time: Despite the corona rules, private visits were always allowed. And you could always go outside for any reason. This is now being clarified by the Lower Austria Regional Administrative Court.
In the decisionThe Viennese lawyer Florian Horn referred to on Twitter is about a man who had been fined 600 euros. On March 20, he and his wife drove to a family they were friends with. The district council Tulln wanted to punish him. “The stay in private rooms was never subject to a ban,” said the court. And you were allowed to enter the public space for any reason, including to get to other apartments. The sentence was overturned.
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(“Die Presse”, print edition, May 15, 2020)
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