Berlin
“Bääm, there’s the thing”: Berlin mayor celebrates for public toilet – citizens are less happy
The new toilet at Kotti in Berlin. Mayor Clara Herrmann seems to have found it successful.
© Clara Herrmann / Twitter
Apparently it was a big event for Berlin Mayor Clara Herrmann. However, her tweet about a newly inaugurated public toilet fell flat.
“Bääm, there it is” 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 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, that was because of what she herself had mentioned in the tweet: “For over 5 years, a toilet has been requested at #kotti – now it’s here” apparently sounded like a positive message to her ears, but it works for the construction of an unadorned toilet not even that short.
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 you cannot get in at all as a disabled person.
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.