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Lobster meal after refugee rescue: Senator from Hamburg apologizes
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Anna Gallina, President of the Greens of the State of Hamburg and Senator of Justice of the city
Source: Bertold Walker
Anna Gallina, state president of the Hamburg Greens, speaks of a “negative impression” that a dinner in Malta generated. She didn’t order a lobster.
WITHHamburg judicial senator Anna Gallina had been silent for two days about an incident that had also caused much unrest within her own party. Then on Friday, the state president of the Greens apologized. He spoke of the irritation and outrage caused by reports of a lobster meal after a refugee mission to Malta in 2017. “I am very sorry that such a negative public impression has been created around my humanitarian work in the Mediterranean”, said.
He could recall visiting a restaurant with several people a few days after returning from the mission at sea, “where other people were asking for lobsters,” he said. But she doesn’t eat lobster herself. “However, I understand that such food can cause irritation and outrage in people. I would like to apologize for this. ” He had been to Malta to help people in need. “This commitment has been at the core of my political work for years and more.”
The lobster meal became known in the course of the investigation against Gallina’s former partner, Michael Osterburg. The former leader of the Green parliamentary group in Mitte district is accused of having misappropriated group funds by liquidating private expenses through the group. According to the prosecutor, the evidence of eating lobster is also under investigation.
“Without knowledge of further use”
The green parliamentary leader Dominik Lorenzen defended Gallina from suspicions of having learned of the embezzlement of which her ex-partner is accused. “Anna Gallina assured us internally that she did not know how to use a restaurant receipt later,” she said. He also paid for the trip to Malta privately. “Everyone who knows Anna Gallina knows that she is a person of integrity who cares.” . “We have to clarify how it happened that this was apparently possible for years.” The Greens in the middle had taken on this responsibility, “and they have my full support for that,” Lorenzen said. “I would like to expressly apologize to all Hamburg residents for the fact that this could happen.”
Numerous other documents
According to the allegations, Osterburg had also billed numerous hospitality receipts from a restaurant that was in the vicinity of Osterburg and Gallina’s apartment at the time. Children’s dishes kept popping up, the two of them have a child together. On the receipts, other people were listed as entertaining guests, many of whom today say they never went there with Osterburg.
