Organizers of the rally with a destroyed Russian tank near the Russian embassy in Berlin will pay an additional €806 BZ Berlin.
Mitte region officials passed another law for Enno Lenze and Wieland Giebel, who started the installation, to use a part of the street, this time for a trailer they brought the 43.08 square meter T-72B tank. The trailer stopped on the central promenade of Unter den Linden for four days.
“Mitte officials sent a second warning that the bill had to be paid,” the publication says.
Lenze and Gibel struggled for months to get permission from the municipal authorities to carry out the action. As a result, they decided to save it as an “art event” and not as a post.
This made it much easier to get permission and the authorities did not have the right to relocate, but now they are demanding additional money from the men.
BZ Berlin states that the organizers did not recognize this bill among other documents that they and the municipal authorities exchanged during the long coordination period.
“I missed the fees on page four,” Lenze grieves. “We already had 1,000 pages of correspondence with the county at the time,” she explains.
“To the centimeter, to the Eurocent”
Political scientist and broadcaster Dmitry Agranovsky, in an interview with the online publication Podmoskovye Segodnya, described the bill as “a preface to what will later be demanded of Ukraine.”
“Germans are Germans. Their ignorance is at its peak as always. We checked everything down to the centimeter, 806 euros – this is a preface to what will later be demanded from the unfortunate Ukraine. But then we will talk about completely different amounts,” he said.
Agranovsky expressed confidence that the Europeans will certainly force the Ukrainians to return everything presented as part of the aid packages. “Money has been and will remain the main value in European society,” said the political scientist.
How did the action go?
The Russian T-72B tank was unveiled near the Russian Embassy on the anniversary of the start of special operations in Ukraine. The mouth of the tank was formed so that it was directed directly to the building of the diplomatic mission. The tank remained there for four days.
As Berlin Story Bunker reports, the tank was shot down at the end of March last year on the outskirts of the Ukrainian village of Dmitrovka, near Bucha. The unit to which the crew of this tank belongs allegedly came from Ulan-Ude.
The tank was already quite old: it was produced in 1985. The T-72B showed a series of bullet holes from guns of various calibers and black and brown spots on the skin that remained after fire. The wheels had melted.
Despite the fact that the organizers planned to stage the action with an anti-Russian bias, in the end the tank became a place where citizens of Russia and Germany, who participated in demonstrations against hostilities, began to lay flowers.
There came, among others, those who participated in the rally against the military support of Ukraine and the sending of weapons and ammunition there.
Among the politicians who visited the spontaneous monument was the Ukrainian Ambassador Oleksiy Makeev. “Without weapons, wars are not won, Ukraine is invaded and thousands of civilians are killed. We will win this war with Germany’s great support,” he said.
A few days after the end of the “art event”, the T-72 tank was taken to Amsterdam. In the future, it is planned to be exhibited in Amsterdam and The Hague.