Global Playground The Olivier Trial, a righteous man in a world of sinners
Who.
Social Democrat Christine Lambrecht, German Defense Minister.
When.
On New Year's Eve, she posted a video on Instagram where, to the background noise of firecrackers going off in Berlin, he gave thanks for all the "great" people she had met through the war in Ukraine.
Than.
Several German politicians have criticized his words and requested his resignation.
The German Minister of Defense, Christine Lambrecht, has started the year as it ended, surrounded by firecrackers, only this time they are not the fireworks with which she dismissed 2022
but resignation calls
.
Lambrecht could not think of any other way to take stock of the year than to go out into the street and record a video referring to the war in Ukraine with the deafening background noise of the rain of firecrackers with which the Germans traditionally receive the New Year. .
In the video, which Lambrecht shared on her Instagram account, the minister affirms that 2022 had posed incredible challenges.
"There is a war in the middle of Europe. And in connection with that, I was able to gain a lot of special impressions, many, many meetings with interesting and great people.
For that I thank you from the bottom of my heart
."
The recording - a minute of terrible quality - has gone viral on social networks and not only because the minister tried to give realism to the suffering of Ukrainians by transferring, with the sound of firecrackers, to that of the Russian missiles that fall on the country (probably he didn't even see parallels) but because of what he says:
thanks to the war in Ukraine he met great people, interesting and wonderful people
.
Lambrecht's words are accompanied by the whistle of rockets and firecrackers, but they have been heard as far as kyiv.
There, the media talk about nonsense, irresponsibility and lack of empathy.
In Berlin, of irritation, perplexity and resignation.
For the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Lambrecht's clumsiness is chronic and he must leave the Executive.
"The speech about the war with firecrackers on New Year's Eve in the background only crowns his series of embarrassments. Therefore: every minute the chancellor continues to cling to this minister and thus further damaging the reputation of our country is at his expense ", says the CDU defense expert, Serap Güler.
Green Party member Stephan Bischoff has not gone as far as his formation is part of the government, but he has ridiculed Lambrecht by linking his video to a scene from the comedy
The Naked Gun
.
Analysts have also raised their voices.
Communications consultant Johannes Hillje wrote on Twitter: "Political communication needs political flair above all. The rest is craft."
Both things were missing from Lambrecht's video.
Lawyer and international policy expert Constanze Stelzenmüller said: "Perplexed. Just perplexed."
On Twitter, the comments of the users are more in line with the fireworks chosen by Lambrecht to talk about the wonderful people he has met in relation to the war in Ukraine:
Lambrecht represents himself as he is, a big firecracker
.
The federal government does not want to comment.
"I see no reason to assess it now," deputy government spokeswoman Christiane Hoffmann said.
A Ministry of Defense spokesman stressed that it was a privately recorded video for which no Ministry resources had been used, hence its poor quality.
It did not enter the content.
The minister's words speak for themselves.
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