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According to Hamburg’s Senator for the Interior Andy Grote, the whirlwind around the so-called “Pimmelgate” has discharged a lot of malice and aggressiveness – right down to the private sphere.
Hamburg – “If it then affects the family, of course it is already a problem,” said the SPD politician of the weekly newspaper “Die Zeit”. He is now no longer only attacked on the Internet, but also in his private environment. “If my wife comes home and finds out that someone has left their excrement in front of our gate, it is already cross-border.” Regarding the background to the controversy that has become known as “Pimmelgate”: In May there was a tweet to Grote on Twitter with the wording “You are 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. “Just recently I was wished for the same fate via tweet as Walter Lübcke, the murdered Kassel district president,” Grote told the paper. “I showed the tweet.” Otherwise, he told the police that he would not file any criminal complaints in the current situation for minor insults.
In the interview, Grote also admitted his own mistakes when criticizing partiers in Hamburg’s Schanzenviertel. “If I look back critically, I would say that my tweet was perhaps a bit too thick in the choice of words against the background of the mistake I made myself,” he said. (dpa)
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