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Hamburg Court Bans Wiesendanger’s Deception Claim Against Drosten

The ruling signals German courts will block unproven claims about scientists.

Der Virologe Christian Drosten hatte gegen den Hamburger Wissenschaftler geklagt
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Christian Drosten, Direktor des Instituts für Virologie der Charité Berlin.
Das Landgericht Hamburg hat dem Virologen Christian Drosten in einem Streit um den Ursprung des Coronavirus mit dem Physiker Roland Wiesendanger erneut Recht gegeben. Die Pressekammer untersagte Äußerungen Wiesendangers, wie das Gericht mitteilte.

Overview

  • The Hamburg regional court, which first imposed an interim ban in March 2022, confirmed it Friday in the main case and said the judgment is not yet final.
  • Judges barred Roland Wiesendanger from saying virologist Christian Drosten knowingly misled the public about where the coronavirus came from.
  • The court also prohibited his claim that the group Scientists for Science wanted virology research without limits, calling it an untrue statement of fact.
  • The panel said the statements violated Drosten’s personality rights under German law and found no proof he ever spoke knowing a statement was false.
  • The case stems from a 2022 Cicero interview later reprimanded by the German Press Council, set against a wider debate in which a WHO expert group called a lab origin extremely unlikely.