Schlaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand
Oh, country o' mine, you are so delightfully neurotic.
With Germany celebrating as its football team advances through the World Cup, the flag is flying everywhere in the country. But as one German of Lebanese descent has found out, not everyone in the country is a fan of the patriotic display. His giant German flag keeps getting torn down -- apparently by left-wing activists. [SPON]
Bassal and his cousin Badr Mohammed, a well-known conservative Christian Democratic Berlin politician who lives in the same building, worked together to get the 20-metre-long flag, which cost them €500.
In recent days the situation has escalated, with the anarchists attempting to remove the flag four times and even setting it on fire, the paper reported. On one occasion a group managed to gain access to the roof of the building and cut the flag down.
Last Friday evening some 16 people dressed in typical black anarchist garb confronted Bassal in his shop, and the mood was tense, the paper said.
After Germany’s World Cup victory over Ghana last week Bassal reportedly stayed up to look after his shop until 4 am.
“They see us as immigrants,” he said. “They don’t understand that Germans who aren’t from Germany would defend Germany.”
Both Bassal and Mohammed told Berliner Morgenpost that they are incredulous they have to defend hanging a German flag to native Germans.[The Local]
Schlaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand
*laughs and laughs*
PS. Some more from the Irish Times: Football brings to surface complex changes in German identity.
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With Germany celebrating as its football team advances through the World Cup, the flag is flying everywhere in the country. But as one German of Lebanese descent has found out, not everyone in the country is a fan of the patriotic display. His giant German flag keeps getting torn down -- apparently by left-wing activists. [SPON]
Bassal and his cousin Badr Mohammed, a well-known conservative Christian Democratic Berlin politician who lives in the same building, worked together to get the 20-metre-long flag, which cost them €500.
In recent days the situation has escalated, with the anarchists attempting to remove the flag four times and even setting it on fire, the paper reported. On one occasion a group managed to gain access to the roof of the building and cut the flag down.
Last Friday evening some 16 people dressed in typical black anarchist garb confronted Bassal in his shop, and the mood was tense, the paper said.
After Germany’s World Cup victory over Ghana last week Bassal reportedly stayed up to look after his shop until 4 am.
“They see us as immigrants,” he said. “They don’t understand that Germans who aren’t from Germany would defend Germany.”
Both Bassal and Mohammed told Berliner Morgenpost that they are incredulous they have to defend hanging a German flag to native Germans.[The Local]
Schlaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand
*laughs and laughs*
PS. Some more from the Irish Times: Football brings to surface complex changes in German identity.
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