Because of a comment under a tweet by the Hamburg Senator for the Interior, Grote, a Twitter user was searched. This then ended up on social media.
[Hamburg -] After Hamburg’s Senator for the Interior Andy Grote (SPD) was referred to as “dick” because of a statement on Twitter, the police searched the apartment of a suspect – and are now being criticized for the raid on the net.
The public prosecutor’s office confirmed the Wednesday morning in Hamburg-St. Pauli completed campaign. “At the request of the public prosecutor’s office, the Hamburg district court issued a search warrant,” said a spokeswoman in Hamburg on Thursday. “The aim was to find out who specifically has access to a specific Twitter account from which the insults were published.”
The background is a user’s comment under a tweet from Grote after celebrations without a distance in the Schanzenviertel. Grote had written in it at the end of May: “Ignorance celebrates in the Schanze! Some people can’t wait for us to all have to go back into lockdown … What a stupid action! “. Among them, a user called Grote “dick”.
There was a house search at 6:00 this morning. 6 officers in the apartment. We were looking for the device with which “you are so 1 dick” was written under a tweet from Andy Grote. You know there are two young children living in this household. Good morning Germany. pic.twitter.com/G9boAWl63s
– ZooStPauli (@pauli_zoo) September 8, 2021
The topic was already trending nationwide on Wednesday with the hashtag #Pimmelgate. The trigger was a tweet that pointed out that the morning had been searched. On Thursday, the post was number 1 among Twitter’s own Germany trends with 10,300 tweets. In many tweets, the use is criticized as disproportionate. Grote himself initially did not react on Twitter. Several media had previously reported.
According to the public prosecutor, searches for insults on the Internet are not uncommon in Hamburg. In 2021, a middle double-digit number of corresponding resolutions had already been passed. [dpa]
