A large poster with the title “Andy, you are so 1 dick” on the Rote Flora is no longer repeatedly painted over by the police. The mentioned Andy is apparently satisfied with it.
The Hamburg police want to end the cat and mouse game in connection with the so-called “Pimmelgate” around Hamburg’s Senator for the Interior Andy Grote (SPD) and devote themselves to other tasks.
She will no longer paint over a poster at the left-wing autonomous cultural center Rote Flora in Hamburg’s Schanzenviertel with the words “Andy, you are so 1 dick”, as a spokeswoman for the German press agency said.
Strangers had put up the meter-high poster on Saturday, since then the police had painted over it twice, each time the lettering reappeared. People around the senator said that Grote was glad that the children’s stuff had finally come to an end and that the police no longer had to deal with it. A Senate spokesman said the issue had not been discussed in the Senate. Grote will not file any further criminal charges, he announced.
Today the slogan was again on the poster in a slightly modified form, this time with the note to Grote: “step back”. The police had stated the day before that the “Pimmel” lettering was an insult in the room. The police are subject to the principle of legality and must take action.
Now the spokeswoman said that the police have now explored options for action with the public prosecutor to get out of this spiral. If the statement is repeated and the knowledge that Grote is unwilling to file a criminal complaint with the same insults, the police can dispense with filing a complaint. The officers took a photo and that was it. The poster will no longer be painted over. This would mean that the officials would not have to get bogged down and could devote themselves to other tasks. In the past few weeks, strangers had repeatedly put yellow stickers with the slogan “Andy, you are so 1 dick” in the vicinity of the Senator’s apartment on St. Pauli. They were also removed by the police.
The German Police Union (DPolG) in Hamburg had previously criticized the many operations in connection with the “Pimmelgate” affair. The police have more important things to do than constantly being a master painter in front of the Rote Flora or scratching off stickers, said DPolG country chief Thomas Jungfer, according to media reports. A certain thick-skinnedness would do everyone good.
The dispute was triggered by a tweet sent to Grote in May on Twitter with the wording “You’re so 1 dick”. It came in response to a tweet from Grote in which he described people as “ignorant” who had celebrated in the Schanzenviertel despite Corona. At the beginning of the pandemic, Grote himself celebrated his renewed appointment to the Interior Senator in disregard of the Corona rules in a pub and had to pay a fine for it.
The matter became the “pimmelgate” when the public prosecutor’s office had the home of the alleged author of the tweet searched in September after Grote’s criminal complaint for insult. Thousands of people criticized the action online under the hashtag “Pimmelgate” as completely disproportionate and excessive.
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