Dusseldorf - When women return a ring that must already be happening a lot. Düsseldorf's famous peace activist Barbara Gladysch ( "Mothers for Peace") has now a very valuable back to OB Joachim Erwin. The Jan Wellem ring. After the highest award an honorary citizen of the city.
The 2005 Nobel Prize for Peace ( "1,000 Women for the Nobel Price") nominated Gladysch: "A protest against the policies Joachim Erwin, who was long overdue!"
The last straw was placed on the Tibet-day. On 31 March blew in around 900 town halls in Germany, the Tibetan flag. Expression of solidarity with the Tibetan people. Not in Dusseldorf.
There she was neither condoned nor at the Town Hall on Jan Wellem monument. Gladysch (67): "Absurd. During the town hall at the same time an exhibition on the flight and expulsion in the 20th Century runs, the mayor remains silent about the expulsion and oppression of Tibetans by the Chinese regime. "
In a letter to Erwin, she writes angrily: "Congratulations on a doppelmoralischen balancing act - olympiareif if you ask me."
Gladysch 1997 had received the honorary ring of the city by the then Mayor Marlies Smeets (SPD). As a special award for her commitment "for a just and livable world".
Gladysch: "During the tenure of Mr. Erwin is the ring for me has become meaningless. Erwin has created a climate that has existed in any previous mayor. Whether they were in the CDU or SPD. "
Their allegations: "The employees are disenfranchised. Hurrying ahead will obey kowtowed at City Hall. Everything is projected onto the upper mayor. Not a good development. "
The return on the ring she has had to resign from an employee of the mayor office. Erwin's response to melt: "Then we just a ring."
