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Wolfgang Schäuble: "I don't do yelling scenes"
Photo: Kay Nietfeld / dpa
For months, punks besieged Germany's most famous island, they had traveled with the 9-euro ticket.
Her protest camp in Westerland's town hall park in particular caused heated discussions, but it wasn't something that kept Wolfgang Schäuble away.
The CDU politician, who regularly vacations on Sylt, met them – and even made them a professional offer, as he revealed in an interview.
"I told them that if they had money problems, I might be able to find you a temporary job," said the former Federal Minister and President of the Bundestag in an interview with the Berlin "Tagesspiegel" about the meeting.
However, the response to this was "low".
Schäuble, who is celebrating his 80th birthday this Sunday, said that while he was on vacation on the North Sea island, he received an email from a man who said he was in the punk camp at the town hall of the island's capital, Westerland.
"They wanted to know if I would be willing to talk to them."
There was a cell phone number in the email.
He then called the man, "he didn't expect that," said Schäuble.
As a prerequisite for his meeting with the punks, Schäuble said, according to his description: "I don't do any screaming scenes."
Punks set the table with coffee, milk, water, apple juice
After this had been clarified, he went to the punkers.
'They set a table for me with coffee, milk, water, apple juice.
We then had a controversial debate for an hour and a half,” reported the member of the Bundestag.
The debate was mainly about "that Sylt does not only belong to the rich".
The punks didn't want to pay the visitor's tax, "I didn't agree with them there," said Schäuble.
The last remaining residents of the punk protest camp at Westerland town hall peacefully cleared the camp last Wednesday.
The dissolution of the camp had been ordered by the authorities and confirmed by a court.
Apr/AFP
