A house search was carried out because of a tweet against Hamburg’s Senator for the Interior Andy Grote (SPD). Now the Hamburg police are moving out again.
Update from Friday, October 15, 2021, 10:30 p.m.: Hamburg’s Interior Senator Andy Grote (SPD) became known nationwide under the hashtag #Pimmelgate. A house search had been carried out because of a tweet against him. The sequel followed on Friday (October 15, 2021). As the NDR reports, stickers with the inscription “Andy, you are so 1 dick” were discovered near Grote’s apartment on St. Pauli.
Officials removed 17 yellow stickers from the inside. As the NDR further reports, the operation was carried out as a “defense against danger”, as there is a suspicion of insult. Evidence has also been secured. The police state security would investigate.
The hashtag #Pimmelgate is making the rounds again on Twitter. “The stickers only say“ Andyl. How can #Grote know that he is meant and not #Schuer? “, It says on the part of a user.
House search for “Pimmel” tweet – Hamburg’s Senator for the Interior, Grote, criticized
Hamburg – The case of a house search, which is said to have been triggered by a tweet, is currently being discussed on Twitter under the hashtag #Pimmelgate. A user had insulted the Hamburg Interior Senator Andy Grote (SPD): “You are so 1 dick,” he wrote under a post by Grote. At the end of May, he was upset about partiers in the Schanzenviertel district, even though he himself has been criticized for misconduct with regard to the Corona measures.
“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 in this household. Good morning, Germany ”, the person concerned tweeted on Wednesday (September 8th, 2021).
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 in this household. Good morning Germany. pic.twitter.com/G9boAWl63s
– ZooStPauli (@pauli_zoo) September 8, 2021
A house search for such a tweet? Grote has been under pressure for a long time, after all, many people are affected by hatred, threats and hostility without such police measures being initiated. “I doubt the rule of law if a house search takes place due to the statement” You are such a p * mmel “while the police have been looking for more than 500 right-wing extremists for years and apparently not found,” said one user.
#Pimmelgate: Looking for a cell phone that posted the tweet
Meanwhile, the public prosecutor’s office launched the raid on Wednesday morning in Hamburg-St. Pauli confirmed. “At the request of the public prosecutor, the Hamburg district court issued a search warrant,” said a spokeswoman on Thursday (09.09.2021). “The aim was to find out who specifically has access to a specific Twitter account from which the insults were published.”
The topic was already trending nationwide on Wednesday with the hashtag #Pimmelgate. On Thursday, the Post was number 1 among Twitter’s own Germany trends with 11,800 tweets (as of 8:50 a.m.). Grote himself initially did not react on Twitter.
#Pimmelgate: House searches for insults are not uncommon
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. It remains open which criteria are applied, whether a house search is carried out after an insult or not. (ktho / dpa)
