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Old coin in Berlin: "No fetish character"
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This is what a message sounds like that confirms clichés about the capital: "Police are breaking up fetish parties with 600 guests in Berlin".
So while the corona numbers are rising and rising, parties are going on in Berlin.
In dark rooms, in lacquer and leather.
The Berlin police made it public on Twitter on Saturday - with a smug undertone: "For about 600 guests at a fetish party in #Mitte, it probably ended unsatisfactorily."
In addition, they published two pictures, a pair of legs in leather straps could also be seen in the shadows.
According to the police, a resident dialed the emergency number because a party with 200 people was being held in a backyard.
The officials would then have found 500 guests and informed the regulatory office center.
The authority finally dissolved the event.
"Not a fetish character"
The organizers of the celebration have now spoken out.
Felix Richter is one of the two managing directors of the Spreewerkstätten, to which the Alte Münze belongs.
The party took place in the courtyard of the former mint.
Title: "Porn by Pornceptual".
Richter says the celebration had "no fetish character".
It was an event that many people from the LGBTIQ community had come to.
"That may seem strange and strange to a police officer," says Richter.
The word fetish was chosen to scandalize the event.
Outdoor urinals
He says that the requirements of the Berlin ordinance were complied with, and that there were even outdoor urinals.
According to a message from the location, the celebration took place outside, on an area of 3500 square meters, the temperature of each guest was measured at the entrance, tickets were only available online in advance.
The event was closed by the public order office because no minimum distance had been observed on the dance floor.
"We and many other Berlin organizers have assumed that the minimum distance can be dispensed with for outdoor events that require a mask on a separate dance floor," says Richter.
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Police operation in Berlin (archive picture)
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Lutz Leichsenring is the spokesman for the Berlin Club Commission, in which 300 club operators and organizers have organized.
He confirms: "Outside, the rule was: Either distance or mask."
This has been the practice so far.
It is not entirely clear why the regulatory office closed the event.
A police spokesman says there were too many people in too small a space.
In addition, several people did not wear a mask.
The office itself left a request unanswered.
The organizers "Pornceptual" did not want to comment on request and referred to a message on the net.
You see yourself as a "political / queer project", you can read there.
No "cruising area"
In contrast to other events, a "cruising area" was dispensed with, areas in which people meet for anonymous sex.
Rather, it was about a gathering of the community.
A member of the police spoke of finding the guests "disgusting and perverse".
A charge that the police want to examine, according to a spokesman.
Regarding the term "fetish", the police spokesman said: Twitter was about "impressions from the emergency room".
The word probably came up because of the clothes of the guests.
It does not appear in the press release on the mission later.
The last celebration of its kind
Regarding the question of why you should organize parties in times of exploding numbers of infections, the operator of the location, Felix Richter, says: "Morally speaking, you can discuss it. But as long as open-air events can be approved, they will also exist."
The website of the Alte Münzwerk states that the celebration was "the last open-air gathering of its kind" anyway.
It almost reads like an apology.
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