widthHamburg Interior Senator Andy Grote (Andy Grote)Social Democratic Party) Was insulted by making a statement on Twitter, and the police searched the apartment of a suspect on Tuesday night. There are now criticisms of the raid on the Internet. The prosecutor’s office confirmed the operation completed in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg on Wednesday morning. “At the request of the prosecutor’s office, the Hamburg District Court issued a search warrant,” a Hamburg spokeswoman said on Thursday. “The goal is to find out who actually has access to the specific Twitter account that posted the insult.”
The background is the comments made by users under Grote’s tweets after Schanzenviertel celebrated without distance. Grote wrote at the end of May: “Ignorance celebrates in Schanze! Some people can’t wait for us all to have to re-enter the lockdown… What a stupid act!”. Among them, a user named Grote is “dick”.
On Wednesday, the topic became popular across the country with the hashtag #Pimmelgate. The trigger is a tweet stating that it has been searched in the morning. On Thursday, the post ranked first in the Twitter German Trends, with 10,300 tweets. In many tweets, this use has been criticized as disproportionately.
Grote himself did not react to this at first. Prior to this, many media reported on the matter. According to the prosecutor’s office, searching for insults on the Internet is not uncommon in Hamburg. In 2021, the corresponding resolution in the middle two digits has been passed.
