An investigative team led by moderator Jan Böhmermann and Hanna Herbst has proven that the well-known influencer Fynn Kliemann allegedly imported fairly manufactured corona masks from Bangladesh. This now has consequences for him: the influencer is now losing a sustainability award.
The research by “ZDF Magazin Royale” around Jan Böhmermann and Hanna Herbst (“Head of Duty” at Magazin Royale) hit like a bomb: The influencer Fynn Kliemann, who was previously considered sympathetic and spoiled, apparently has corona masks on a large scale bought from countries like Bangladesh and Vietnam and resold as “fair and made in Europe” masks. The seamstresses received less than the subsistence level in their country.
Revelations about Fynn Kliemann: Sustainability award revoked
Particularly brazen: Kliemann bagged a special prize from the Next Economy Awards for sustainability for his fraudulent masks. The “German Sustainability Award Foundation” behind it reacted to the revelations of “Magazine Royale” both quickly and consistently: “Because he used unfair methods and betrayed us with greenwashing, we are denying him the award,” says a statement the Foundation.
The production in Bangladesh and Vietnam would not even have been a fundamental problem for the foundation: “Other award winners show, by the way, that you can also produce in Bangladesh and Vietnam under fair and ecological conditions, which can be verified.” However, Kliemann did not meet these standards and, according to the foundation, “did these fair producing companies a disservice”.
Kliemann: Inferior masks donated to refugee camps
Even more important and decisive for the withdrawal of the award: Kliemann had donated some of the masks to refugee camps – sounded good, but Kliemann had received the masks free of charge because they did not meet the agreed quality standards.
The “Magazine Royale” adds on Twitter: “The masks were ‘single-layer instead of double-layer’, i.e. much too thin, even for low demands on an infection protection effect. The rubber bands of the masks were of different lengths and colors, the seams came loose a lot easy.” According to the DNP Foundation, this exploitation of emergencies “is incompatible with everything we understand by sustainability”.
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