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A photo that “Mindener Tageblatt” editor-in-chief Benjamin Piel posted on Twitter late Saturday afternoon causes outrage, not only among media professionals: a naked male mannequin can be seen hanging from a bridge with a rope around his neck. has been. The feet float on the ground, in front of the stomach there is a cardboard sign on which someone has written “Covid-Presse”. A piece of white paper with the inscription “blind” is pasted over the face.
“If criticism of journalists turns into execution fantasies, it is abominable,” writes journalist Piel.
The “Minden gegen Rechts” alliance had previously posted the photo of the Weser catwalk in Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia, on Facebook and commented: “This facility is obviously intended to be associated with an execution of media workers.”
“Starting from a political background”
A passerby had noticed the doll on the night of Friday to Saturday and had alerted the police. Officials secured the figure, state security took over the investigation.
“We are assuming a political background,” a Bielefeld police spokeswoman told SPIEGEL. He is now being investigated for insult and sedition. However, so far there are no concrete indications of a connection with the manifestations of the initiative “lateral thought 571“the spokeswoman said. Opponents of the government’s anti-crown measures took to the streets in Bielefeld and Minden on Saturday.
Editor-in-chief Piel told the Evangelical Press Service (epd) on Sunday that critics of the crown’s measures had been demonstrating in Minden every two weeks for months. In this way, a mood against the media is created, including the “Mindener Tageblatt”.
According to Piel, his newspaper was denied journalistic neutrality and accused of selling. Colleagues who reported on Corona were concerned about aggressive mood.
