Icking is stunned. Several election posters were damaged, but then came the sad climax around posters for Mayor candidate Cornelia Zechmeister.
- Icking is stunned.
- Several election posters were damaged.
- Some were hung on maypoles with a black cross.
Icking - Election posters have been repeatedly damaged in the Isar valley community in recent days. But something happened on the night of Friday that caused stunned: Unknowns each pulled up a poster on the maypoles in Irschenhausen and Dorfen by Cornelia Zechmeister, mayor candidate of the party-free voters community (PWG), with Zechmeister's head down and smeared with a black cross.
"My heart stopped," says the 54-year-old, second mayor of the municipality of Pullach and head of the Ickingen building authority for 14 years. She was spared the direct view of one of the maypoles. "I'm on vacation today, but of course people sent me photos," she says in an interview with our newspaper.
Scandal in Icking: Tat was probably planned neatly
"I'm shocked, I'm just standing next to me at the moment." Zechmeister was startled on Friday morning: In front of the town house in Pullach , there were five election posters from Icking. Matthias Ertl, Chairman of the PWG , explains: During the night, all 25 posters showing the portrait of the top candidate were dismantled in Icking - and some of them were then obviously transported to their home town.
All PWG posters without Zechmeister's photo remained untouched, reports Ertl . He assumes that the act was "neatly planned", the PWG chief has filed a complaint with the police . "We are investigating property damage against unknown persons," confirms Commissioner Steffen Frühauf. Mayor Margit Menrad (Independent Citizens List Icking / UBI) learned about the incredible maypole campaign during her skiing holiday . "This is unimaginable, a limit has been exceeded here," said the town hall manager in a phone call to our newspaper. She is "ashamed" that the whole thing is "unbearable".
Posters of the candidate for mayor hung on maypoles - consequences are drawn
"I'm terrified," says PWG chairman Ertl . "It goes well below the belt", for Cornelia Zechmeister "I'm very sorry". What are the consequences of the party-free voter community from the incident? "We will remove all of the PWG posters and not hang up any new ones," Ertl replies. Last but not least "because of solidarity with Ms. Zechmeister". Ertl has been a municipal councilor in Icking for 24 years and has seen many election campaigns - "But something unbelievable has never happened here in Icking".
He assumes that several perpetrators were up to mischief on Friday night. Steal dozens of posters that were screwed onto wooden stands or secured with wire, transport them away and pull up two on the maypole in Irschenhausen and Dorfen with the help of the flag cable: Ertl is certain that many hands are needed “and one vehicle”.
After scandal over election posters in Icking: wanton destruction in the past few days
Election posters have been willfully destroyed in Icking in the past few days. In pictures showing the green mayor candidate, the perpetrator Laura von Beckerath-Leismüller stung her eyes. A banner with which the top candidate of the SPD, Dr. Beatrice Wagner , who advertises for herself, was cut open with a sharp object. The cut went right through Wagner's face. "Now I can imagine how Ms. Wagner must have felt at the sight," says Cornelia Zechmeister. "It's not funny at all."
The 54-year-old does not deny that she got a queasy feeling after seeing the photos of the two maypoles, each of which has a poster with a black cross on it. The outrage in the Isar valley community has no party political or other limits. "I am speechless," Beckerath-Leismüller posted on the social network Facebook. Dr. Georg Linsinger , Chairman of the UBI, commented on the maypole photo, which can be seen on Facebook, with the words: "This is clearly above the tolerable, unbelievable!"
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