| Protesting postmen disturbed the wife of the German Chancellor Recently, the wife of Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, Doris, contacted the Hannover police with a complaint and a request to protect her privacy. In this city, in the Tsoo district, there is a house belonging to their family. A demonstration of 3 thousand postal workers passed just past this house at the beginning of the week. For 20 minutes, workers expressed their noisy protest against the planned reduction in holiday and Christmas money. Doris Schröder-Kepf could contemplate the scenes of protest from the window and hear the call of the state trade union boss Wolfgang Menge, which would sound in Russian translation as “Fuck Schröder’s politics!”
Doris Schröder-Kepf did not go into politics and gave vent to her feminine bewilderment. After all, the demonstrators know very well that her husband works in Berlin, so let them protest against his policies there as much as they want. But she herself wants to be alone with her daughter Clara. “In general, this is not good,” noted the wife of the current Bundeschancellor, “as far as I know, this did not happen at Chancellor Kohl’s in front of his house in Eggersheim.”
In response to the protests of the “first Frau,” the police president of Hannover expressed regret about what happened and apologized to the chancellor’s wife. He also promised that in the future, when preparing such actions, temporary fences will be installed in such a way that demonstrators do not disturb the acoustic peace of residents of surrounding houses. The leadership of the trade unions, which continues to insist on freedom of assembly, expressed disagreement with this. “We call on Ms. Schröder-Kepf for greater tolerance,” said Harald Reutter, one of the leaders of the trade union Ver.di. He clarified that the procession of postmasters was not heading to the chancellor’s house, but to a church located 100 meters away. The trade union leader emphasized that due to the large number of participants in the demonstration, it was the police, who gave permission for the procession route, who insisted on the use of megaphones, the noise of which disturbed the chancellor’s wife.
Trade unions have officially stated that they cannot rule out holding protest demonstrations in the vicinity of the chancellor's house. We are talking about significant salary cuts, and the federal government and Chancellor Schröder personally are responsible for this. “I am surprised by Ms. Schröder-Kepf’s reaction,” trade boss Reutter said yesterday. - The location for the demonstration was not chosen simply because of its proximity to the chancellor's house. In a democracy, everyone can be uncomfortable with demonstrations from time to time.” Yuri Shpakov, Berlin |
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