German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wears a pink safety helmet during the inaugural event of the 2025 Girls' Day at the office on 1 April 2025 in Berlin.© Clemens Bilan / Getty Images
Germany was fined EUR 4500 (5100) on Tuesday for slipping into Chancellor Olaf Scholz's column and hugging him on the airport plate.The defendant, whose name was withheld by the authorities, besides had a suspended driver's licence for 2 and a half years.
In May 2023, a man driving a dark Audi joined the Chancellor's column erstwhile Scholz returned to Berlin after the 25th anniversary of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt.When the convoy arrived at Frankfurt Airport, the driver got out of the car, shook Scholz's hand and hugged him on the plane of the airport.
He was then detained by the police.According to Deutsche Welle, the man insisted that he joined the convoy by mistake.
He explained that he was advanced on cocaine and partying for 2 days.
The court found him guilty of driving under the influence of drugs and trespassing.“People who say hello to me never impress me” said Scholz shortly after the meeting, quoted by AFP.
"It's perfectly average and I didn't consider this a dramatic situation either."Chancellor's spokesman, Wolfgang Buechner, later told reporters that Scholz ‘at no time did he feel threatened’.Nevertheless, safety negligence has triggered public control, given the increase in verbal and physical assaults on German politicians in fresh years.In 2024, the attacker struck Franzica Giffey, Minister of Economy of Berlin, at the head of the event in the library.
That same year, a group of teenagers attacked Mathias Ecke, a associate of the European Parliament erstwhile he posted election posters, and aggressive passers-byssed curses and spit on Green organization politician Yvonne Mosler on the street.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/615815-man-financed-hugged-scholz/
