Angela Merkel (CDU), Olaf Scholz (SPD) and Markus Söder (CSU) are banned from entering a famous political pub in Berlin.
The restaurateurs are protesting against the closure in November.
Berlin -
Angela Merkel
* (CDU)
and
Olaf Scholz (SPD)
and
Markus Söder (CSU)
are banned from entering a restaurant.
But it's not just any restaurant.
It is the legendary Berlin political pub "Permanent Representation".
Managing director Jörn Peter Brinkmann and a partner Jan Philipp Bubinger are reacting to the "renewed forced closure" of the restaurant, which is tantamount to a disaster.
As a
restaurant, you are
part of the solution and not part of the problem in the
second wave of the pandemic
*
, said the two in a statement on Facebook.
You accuse politicians of serious omissions and make clear demands.
Corona lockdown in November: Celebrity pub bans Merkel, Söder and Scholz from the house
There is Kölsch, wine from the Rhine and traditional Rhenish "Krüstchen beef goulash" on the menu of the Berlin StaeV.
And that is no accident.
When
Berlin
became the capital and seat of government
after German reunification
, thousands of
Bonn residents
moved to Berlin, including hundreds of members of parliament.
The "permanent representation" should serve as a kind of contact point for them.
And it was.
Although today mainly tourists populate the place, one or the other political celebrities can still be seen.
Even
Angela Merkel (CDU),
said to have been already there.
Check out this post on Instagram
THX Gerhard Schröder for your visit.
🙏🏻💯.
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.
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House ban due to Corona measures: Berlin cult pub no longer wants to serve politicians
Politicians have not used the time since April to prepare the country for a
second corona wave
, the two managing directors said in a statement.
“We, the gastronomy, have worked hard,” say the two.
Hygiene concepts have been drawn up, new ventilation systems have been installed, guest lists have been kept and new infrastructures for catering in the fresh air have been developed.
The
infection rate
*
in the catering trade was below three percent, according to the two restaurateurs.
They are now demanding that politicians not be supported with “
tax money
*
” - but
that they should be allowed to do
their job.
They would take the virus seriously and are aware of the responsibility.
“What if the number of infections continues to rise in December, January and February?
Will there then be a third and fourth lockdown? "They ask - and predict:" That will be the end of a diverse gastronomy. "(Dpa / kat)
* Merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editorial network