“Bääm, there’s that thing” and “that’s local politics too,” is how the Berlin mayor teases the great new achievement in her district: A public toilet in the middle of the Kottbusser Tor, which is known and notorious in Berlin for drugs and crime .
While Clara Herrmann (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) probably wanted to demonstrate her drive and implementation strength to her voters, the message on Twitter was only moderately well received. On the one hand, this was due to what she herself had mentioned in the tweet: “For over 5 years, a toilet has been installed on the
After all: It is significantly faster than the 14 years of BER… Nothing is known about the costs so far. The included photos didn’t necessarily make Clara Herrmann’s message any better: gray skies, run-down houses in the background – but of course she can only do something about that to a limited extent.
However, the place itself doesn’t look very inviting either, is overgrown with weeds and covered with mud and mud exactly in front of the doors of the new toilet container. At the entrance there is another step waiting for the users. In the best case, you get dirty shoes in front of the toilet, in the worst case, a disabled person cannot get in at all.
The reactions to her tweet are correspondingly different: Mehmed König, for example, replies: “It took five (!) years (!!!) for a simple toilet house to be built? Wow.” A CDU politician doesn’t give the construction much time: “The thing won’t last a month.” And users were also reminded of a parallel: On the same day in Novosibirsk, a politician celebrated the fact that a miserable wooden toilet on the motorway now also had a door.
