Putin Klopapier on the supermarket shelf: Customer calls the police

Created: 17.10.2022, 11:44 a.m.

By: Carina Zimniok

The Putin Klopapier disturbed a teenager.

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In Weilheim there has been an electronic supermarket since January that is open around the clock.

There are food, snacks, drinks - and toilet paper.

However, no ordinary.

But one with Putin's counterfei on it.

This now led to a police operation in the self -service shop.

We spoke to the operator Felix Schimke-Klubuk (33), who, together with his wife Myroslawa (30), sends relief supplies to Ukraine almost weekly.

What was going on on Thursday in your self-service supermarket?

Various articles are currently exhibited in the shop for Ukraine aid.

Food, art ... - they can be acquired, the proceeds go directly to Ukraine.

We also offer toilet paper with Putin on it, a role costs ten euros.

This is very popular and has always had great joy among customers.

But not on Thursday, there was trouble.

Tell.

A group of young people was in the shop, they looked at the toilet paper, and one referred to Putin as a bitch.

That led to a wrangling.

One of the young people, the accent after Russian descent, was so dissatisfied with the presentation of his beloved president that he immediately chose the police emergency call.

Young people were so annoyed by the representation of his president that he called the police

How exactly do you know that?

There is no seller in the shop, so a surveillance camera with a microphone is installed there.

After the police were there, I watched the video.

So the police really came because of a role of Putin Klopapier?

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Yes, she came after 13 minutes.

This is very quick for a roll of toilet paper.

I happened to be on site and could speak to the officials.

The proceeds from the sale of the toilet paper are intended to help people in Ukraine

The police probably wanted to know why they have toilet paper with Putin face in their range ...

This is an art campaign, the proceeds from the sale should help people in Ukraine.

My wife is a Ukrainian pediatrician.

I think the toilet paper is covered by freedom of art - and also the name "Putler", ie the word creation of Putin and Hitler, which stands next to the toilet paper on a handwritten display.

The word is completely common in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

In Kyiv I heard the word tens of times last week.

In Weilheim for Ukraine: Myroslava and Felix Schimke-Klubuk ask for help for people in the war zone.

The district's initiative can be found at www.polling.de/solidaritaet-ucraine.

© Emanuel Gronau

Been to Kyiv?

Yes, my wife and I go there regularly.

This is probably dangerous, we often get air alarm.

The other day is about 200 meters next to the apartment that we rent when we are there.

We weren't there at the time, but the shock is blatant if you know: that could have caught us.

What do you do in Ukraine?

My wife has many colleagues there, we bring medication, aids - so far worth around one million euros.

We work hand in hand with the district of Weilheim-Schongau, the Bavarian Red Cross and are supported by companies, clubs and many private individuals.

In Ukraine, we help with different projects together with authorities.

Among other things, there is a children's hospital that we particularly help.

We often hear that doctors have to sit in the bunker with children with cancer.

A bomb recently detonated on the other side of the clinic.

A colleague of my wife, a children's onkologist, died on the way to work.

My wife found it quite ridiculous that in Upper Bavaria the police came so quickly because of a role toilet paper.

And pediatricians die in Ukraine.

Putin -critical works of art were sometimes demolished or smeared

Did you have problems with Putin for the first time?

We also have Putin -critical works of art, for example caricatures or pictures of Ukrainian artists, which were sometimes demolished or smeared.

But because this toilet paper is humorous, there have so far been only positive reactions.

So far we have sold five five pieces.

This is more of a joke article.

The main contribution comes via donations.

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Do you want to continue selling the toilet paper?

It is just sold out.

But we will take up a lot more Putin -critical things.

My wife does not be intimidated by the bombs in Kyiv, then I will not be intimidated by a gang of young people in Upper Bavaria.

Are the police investigating them now?

I rely on the freedom of art.

I think the Bavarian police have a clear attitude towards dictatorships, which I was also able to perceive with the police.

The police have no interest in protecting the Russian dictatorship in any kind.

In the meantime, I have learned that the police found after consultation with several specialist departments: there is nothing against me.

Do you want to talk to the young person who called the police?

I do not know him.

But when I see him again, I will show him pictures of mass graves in Ukraine that his president has caused.

Anyone who sees the suffering in Ukraine rethinks their attitude to dictatorships.

As funny as the incident appears, the situation in Ukraine is dead.

Interview: Carina Zimniok