23.10.2020
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AfD politician disregards corona rules: will a photo be his undoing?
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Gera – The AfD is known not to think too much of the current measures during the Corona-Pandemie and shows it again and again. A politician could now face real trouble if the rules were again disregarded.
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Stephan Brandner (54, AfD), member of the German Bundestag, speaks at an AfD rally. © Bodo Schackow / dpa-Zentralbild / dpa
Stephan Brandner (54, AfD) wrote on his Twitter profile: “Going home with the – again not on time”. The understandable but unfinished sentence was followed by an angry emoji and a locomotive.
With this more or less creative way, the lawyer from Gera probably wanted to express his displeasure with the delay of Deutsche Bahn.
Under his text, he added a photo of himself looking out of the train. But one detail was particularly noticeable in the MP’s post: Brandner was not wearing a mask.
Mouth and nose covering is actually compulsory while driving.
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A user probably didn’t want to look the other way at Brandner’s rule break and reported the tweet to the authorities. “@Polizei Thuringia do you care about the guy?” He wrote and also linked the train. “@Deutsche Bahn please issue a general ban on the use of the weirdo who apparently fails to implement the mask requirement despite studying law? Presumably he fled to the toilet again,” he wrote. (Spelling adopted)
How the railroad company dealt with the situation is not known. Nevertheless, the member of the Bundestag can still face trouble in retrospect.
The Thuringian police reacted to the user’s lines and wrote: “Anyone who already finds wearing a mask uncomfortable will hate a ventilator. We have secured the tweet and are forwarding it to colleagues in the federal police for reasons of responsibility.”
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Stephan Brandner is again noticeable negatively
Around two months ago, the 54-year-old had already triggered an operation by the Federal Police because he refused to wear a mask on the Berlin-Rügen ICE route.
The politician is said to have said to the conductor that he was just eating something and would then consider putting on a mask. The controller notified the police, whereupon Brandner is said to have locked himself in the toilet. Brandner has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2017.
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Cover photo: Bodo Schackow / dpa-Zentralbild / dpa
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