The Berlin museum director Enno Lenze and his colleagues can celebrate and realize their project. The administrative court has ruled that a shot down Russian tank may be placed as a memorial in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin. However, the Berlin-Mitte district office is very concerned.
Lenze’s project was rejected by the district office in June. It was claimed that “people probably died” in the wreckage, so the exhibition was not suitable. Moreover, it affects Germany’s foreign policy interests and is not about art. Traffic is blocked and people are psychologically stressed.
The administrative court has now ruled that it does not matter whether it is art – it is about the permissible freedom of expression. Car traffic is not affected, the lineup for two weeks is hassle-free, reasons of piety and foreign policy interests are irrelevant.
It is not set up directly in front of the embassy
However, the wreck may not be placed directly in front of the embassy on the boulevard Unter den Linden. The middle boardwalk there is not designed for a 40-ton load. According to the court, this is possible across the street on a blocked section of Schadowstrasse.
Kiev: “Very close sense of annihilation war”
Ukrainian ambassador Andriy Melnyk told the “Tagesspiegel”: “Russia’s destroyed war equipment, which was to be displayed in the heart of Berlin, should give the people of Germany a first-hand feeling of the brutal war of annihilation.” supports the project with all its strength, so the diplomat.
Source: Krone
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