"Reiner Fuellmich Submits Appeal Arguments – No Date Set for High Court’s Verdict
The
deadline for German lawyer Reiner Fuellmich to submit his arguments for
his appeal were submitted to the regional court (Landgericht) in
Göttingen, on the 30th of June 2025, which was the official deadline.
The
court will have forwarded the arguments to Germany’s High Court, the
Bundesgerichtshof, where eight judges will consider the appeal.
Dr.
Sascha Böttner, one of Germany’s top three lawyers in criminal law, is
Fuellmich’s representative during the appeal proceedings. He is backed
by Katja Wörmer, who represented Fuellmich for over one-and-a-half years
at the regional court, together with several other legal experts, who
constitute Fuellmich’s legal advisory team.
No date for the High Court’s verdict has been set.
The deadline for German lawyer Reiner Fuellmich to submit his arguments
for his appeal were submitted to the regional court (Landgericht) in
Göttingen, on the 30th of June 2025, which was the official deadline.
The court will have forwarded the arguments to Germany’s High Court, the
Bundesgerichtshof, where eight judges will consider the appeal. One of
Germany’s top lawyers in criminal law will represent Fuellmich during
the appeal proceedings.
He is backed by Katja Wörmer, who represented
Fuellmich for over one-and-a-half years at the regional court, together
with several other legal experts, who constitute Fuellmich’s legal
advisory team. No date for the High Court’s verdict has been set.
Judgements
of the Bundesgerichtshof may take up to two years. In the case of judge
Christian Dettmar (the judge who ruled that the children at two Weimar
schools should be exempt from having to wear face masks and from
undergoing other harmful corona measures and was severly punished for
it) it took 14 months.
The appeal is a purely written exercise; there will be no hearings held.
“The eight High Court judges together form what is called a Criminal
Senate, which includes a Chair, a vice-Chair and a rapporteur, or
‘Berichterstatter’,” Katja Wörmer explains in a telephone conversation
on Friday 18 July.
This rapporteur is tasked with analysing the appeal,
drawing a preliminary conclusion and presenting the case to the other
seven judges.
If the Senate members accept the Berichterstatter’s
conclusion without looking into the case any further, their conclusion
is labeled ‘unanimous’. If they reject the case on the sole advice of
the rapporteur that the appeal has no merit, the Senate will provide no
or limited argumentation to support their conclusion, as was the case
with judge Dettmar.
It took the regional court of Göttingen five
weeks to formulate a written verdict after they had, seemingly in haste,
presented their oral judgement on the 24th of April. The written
version was sent to Fuellmich’s lawyers on the 30th of May and the five
regional judges have used that time to justify and ‘High Court proof’
the extreme measures that were imposed on Fuellmich, in prison and in
court, during the course of the proceedings.
The six months Fuellmich was put in solitary confinement, the
unacceptable conditions under which, only, he was allowed to say goodbye
to his dying mother, the heavily armed guards during transports and the
silencing of his lawyers in court were unprecedented, according to
legal observers and prison guards.
Meanwhile the co-founder of Corona
Ausschuss remains in preliminary detention in the prison of Bremervörde
(JVA Bremervörde), since he was transferred from JVA Rosdorf, near
Göttingen, on the 26th of May. His belongings arrived three weeks later.
On
the whole the regime at the smaller, more modern JVA Bremervörde is
less austere than in Rosdorf. Although visiting hours are still limited
to three per month and the temperature inside the prison is lower than
in Göttingen, Fuellmich is allowed to interact with other prisoners and
the food is said to be better, too.
The biggest plus is that Fuellmich is allowed to make daily phone calls
from his own cell to his wife Inka, and in general has more and longer
speaking time. Telephone conversations are, however, cut off every so
many minutes – this can be up to seven times in one call – after which
Fuellmich has to initiate a follow-up call.
The big downside of JVA
Bremervörde, compared to JVA Rosdorf, is that it is presently not
possible for him to speak to his wife via Skype. This means that
Fuellmich has not seen his wife (online) since the 25th of May, at the
latest.
The last time the married couple were together in real terms
was on the 10th of October 2023, when they arrived at Tijuana Airport,
where Reiner Fuellmich got intercepted and effectively abducted by the
Mexican immigration services. Mexico, acting on a request by the German
government, flew the unsuspecting lawyer to Mexico City for what was
officially classified as a ‘deportation’, but procedurally was not.
Fuellmich landed in Frankfurt, Germany, three days later, where he was
instantly arrested and taken to JVA Rosdorf.
Since his arrest, Fuellmich has been receiving a constant stream of
letters and cards, for which he says to be extremely grateful. It is the
humanity in those letters that keeps him buoyed,
Fuellmich stated
during a telephone conversation on Wednesday. Buoyed and determined he
remains, as ever, as well as convinced that justice will ultimately
prevail.
Letters and cards can be sent to:
JVA Bremervörde
Dr. Reiner Fuellmich
Am Steinberg 75
27432 Bremervörde
Germany
To
help Reiner Fuellmich reply to you mail, include a self-addressed
envelope (if possible, with the appropriate value in German stamps).
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