Overview
- Following Friday’s expedited ruling, judges upheld a lower court and allowed a nine‑day camp on the Moorweide starting Saturday with no further appeal.
- Organizers began setting up tents early Saturday as police monitored the site, and the group expects up to 200 participants.
- Police had tried to move the event to Sternschanzenpark because the Moorweide served in World War II as a staging point for the deportation of thousands of Hamburg’s Jews.
- The courts said restrictions require concrete threats tied to the assembly, even if organizers include a group under extremism monitoring.
- Organizers told police they would not question Israel’s right to exist or relativize the Holocaust, yet Hamburg’s state rabbi and Israel’s embassy voiced deep concern about holding the camp at this location.