So the statue for the art fest in Wiesbaden of Turkey's Erdogan basically lasted 24 hours. Somewhere around 9 PM last night, the city authorities talked to the cops and folks admitted threats existed, and it had to go. So they called the fire department, and arranged for near 100 cops (they had virtually every city cop there, some Frankfurt cops, and some of the Hessen state riot police) to set up a zone and protect the crane while they plucked the statue up and carried it off.
Where to? Unknown. I'm guessing we will see it again somewhere in Germany.
The threats? The local journalists claim that Turks were mostly pro-statue, and the Kurds, with some Germans.....were anti-statue.
Does it say something about tolerance? Well.....yeah.....folks just aren't that tolerant of Erdogan at present.
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