When a city woman Parking shows, discriminated against then men or even women? With this question, the administrative court of Munich took place on Wednesday.
the stumbling block is a municipal car Park in the upper Bavarian town of Eichstätt. After the rape of a woman in 2016, the city, where a woman Parking to be disclosed and decided: well-lit, not so remote. For this you have been sued. Dominik B. Bayer from the Rhineland, Born in 1992, was felt to visit in Eichstätt, from the woman Parking there, discriminated against, and therefore, attracted to court.
On Wednesday, the city reached an agreement with the plaintiff. Before the administrative court of Munich, the upper announced a Bavarian commune, to easily change the location of your wife Parking. The new signs should clearly show that they are merely a recommendation – so also men without consequences to women’s Parking spaces are allowed to Park.
On the question of discrimination, the court did not, however. The plaintiff wanted to say before the trial, nothing. According to court information, he sees the General equal treatment act hurt. He has to admit that with the Parking, not only men are discriminated against, but also women, because the courts suggested that they could not run so far, and protection to be in need of.
“It proved to be, well, statistically, that women are crimes more likely to be victims of Violence than men,” said administrative Director of the city of Eichstätt, Hans Bittl. He is head of the law Department of the city and seems to be reasonably stunned on the action. “It’s just safety reasons.” In the immediate vicinity there is an old people’s home, many women were there late in the evening or early in the morning in the dark the layer service.
woman Parking are to be a legal gray area
The signs on the Parking spaces, “pure signs”, stressed Bittl. If a man with his car spot there could not be prosecuted. Nevertheless, the signs disturbed the young man, apparently so much so that he sued the city.
In contrast to a sign indicating disabled Parking are provided signs for the wife Parking in the road traffic regulations, as well as parent-and-child Parking spaces. According to the ADAC, the question of how “effective” these signs on public Parking lots can be.
According to the assessment of an ADAC spokesperson, the case is likely to be the first in which a court deals with a woman Parking in the public car Park. In private supermarket Parking lots and Parking garages, special Parking for women are commonplace and private law terms, conditions, and regulated.
lawyer: women in “male stupidity” at risk
Yet even there, women Parking spaces have already been on the case for justice, as the lawyer Geedo Paprotta from Neumarkt in the upper Palatinate for his legal column in the “middle Bavarian newspaper” has found out. In 2013, the Landshut district court sentenced a man to probation and to the payment of 5000 euros. He had beaten an elderly gentleman, because he had parked his car on a woman in the Parking lot.
In the state of Rhineland-Palatinate drew a nurse against his employer in court, because he saw to the establishment of women’s Parking spaces on the premises a “men discrimination”. The land labour court dismissed the action. Women are more often victims of Assault, about a “men’s discrimination was” justified in this case (Az. 1 Ca-184/11).
“I want to make in the column is not funny woman Parking, but about people, about women Parking funny,” stresses Paprotta Interview with the German press Agency. “Women are discriminated against in our society massively. And treat women and men equal would be to do nothing against this discrimination. We live in a world in which women are not to be treated well.“
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women would require much more often than men victims of violence Paprottas view of a special protection. “That’s etiquette. But not because women are weak, but because women are simply threatened by the stupidity of our world – and that’s a very male stupidity.“ (dpa)