Lord Mayor: This is how Palmer explains the incident at night in Tübingen

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TMeanwhile, Mayor Boris Palmer (Greens) has run into a student from his city – and is now defending himself against critics of his behavior. He was reprimanded by the man, said Palmer of the German News Agency (dpa). The incident occurred about two weeks ago, in one evening, and was then made public through several contributions in the local press of the country. Since Monday, Twitter and Facebook are also discussing a lot of the incident.

The news agency tries to rebuild the conflict in a neutral way and so has spoken to the 33-year-old student. His version of events is as follows: Boris Palmer had come to meet him and his companion in the center of Tübingen. According to his own statements, the student would have made a remark like "O I" when seeing the mayor. He did not remember the exact wording on Monday. (In other reports, the phrase "Oh no, he also quotes.") Then the mayor ran after the two, got stuck and took pictures to record the personal details of the 39; man. "We tried to make him understand that we did not want to, he was always on our way," said the 33-year-old.

A 26-year-old woman, who was also walking in the city that night, told the DPA on Monday that she had been informed of calls at the scene and had been there. made. The mayor was installed with threatening gestures in front of the student. She then contacted Palmer on Facebook about this incident. He wrote to him in a message: "The young man should have had the balls to face the discussion."

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Palmer did not want to tell the dpa what the student had told him. He had said but pejorative about it. "The content does not matter." According to Palmer, the 33-year-old has behaved strongly and aggressively. "I was insulted at night," he said. Then, the young man started to rise up and was later called a victim in the local press. The student shouted loudly, waving his arms and holding Palmer at a distance. "It's disrespect, disrespect for others, the office, the rules, the law," Palmer said. He did not think that we had to endure that. This is not an isolated case, he has frequently experienced it, as Palmer has also run a longer post on Facebook.

The mayor sees in the behavior of the student a disruption of nocturnal sleep. According to him, the man should have identified with him as the head of the municipal security service. "As head of the local police department, I am allowed to apply local law, this includes sleeping at night, if you do not believe it, you can read the text on my ID card," wrote Palmer on Facebook showing the identity. The student should now pay a fine – due to disturbances of peace and refusal to identify. It is now clear who it is. "I asked the administration to fix the appropriate fine," Palmer said.

But he also made an offer to the 33-year-old: "If the young man finally finds the courage to tell me what's bothering him, you can of course talk about dropping such a fine," he said. . "It's not punishment, but insight." On Facebook, Palmer was also self-critical: he changed his cover photo and now stands as a superhero with a green facial mask – an badembly, which had already spread among other satirists Jan Böhmermann on the Internet.