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Tübingen (dpa / lsw) - With his controversial statements, Tübingen's mayor Boris Palmer did not want to catch any attention in his own words.
"No, that was not a calculation, nor a provocation for the public," wrote the 48-year-old on Monday morning on Facebook.
"I had no idea which earthquake I was going to trigger again."
The Greens accuse their party colleague of racism because of a testimony about former national soccer player Dennis Aogo, who has a Nigerian father, and want to throw him out of the party.
The state party congress in Baden-Württemberg had voted for an exclusion procedure against Palmer on Saturday.
The Lord Mayor explained: “I wanted to make one of my long-time internal party opponents understand how absurd I find his constructed racism allegations by presenting him with a racism allegation that is so completely absurd that even he should have noticed.
To a certain extent, educational satire. "
But he should have thought “what he would do with it”.
But he could not have imagined that, wrote Palmer.
"That's why I accept the accusation of naivety."
© dpa-infocom, dpa: 210510-99-535531 / 2
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