A court in Berlin has allowed a destroyed Russian tank to be placed in front of the Russian embassy
Two operators of a Berlin museum have already won a court appeal, after local authorities rejected their initial offer to place a destroyed Russian tank in front of the Russian Embassy in central Berlin, reported "Deutsche Welle".
Eno Lenze and Wieland Giebel of the Berlin Story Bunker museum first proposed the idea in June, saying they wanted to place the destroyed T-90 tank outside the Russian embassy on the famous Unter den Linden boulevard for a period of two weeks.
#Berlin: Gericht entscheidet, Panzerwrack darf vor der Botschaft #Russia's aufgestellt werden.
Der Bezirk hatte dies preventer wollen und argumentiert, dass in dem Wrack "wahrscheinlich Menschen gestorben" seien.
Das Gericht: Doch das geht!Well done Enno #Lenze @ennolenze. 👏 pic.twitter.com/mXim0KHzw8
— Botschaften der Russischen Lügeration (@lugeration) October 11, 2022
They were inspired by similar actions in cities such as Kyiv, Prague and Warsaw, Lenze said.
Lenze warned supporters that despite his lawyer Patrick Heinemann's courtroom victory, he would not be in a rush to "park" the tank on the lawn of the Russian embassy just yet.
"But we're still in Germany!" Lenze joked. "And it's going to take weeks or months until we get all the other paperwork that we need done because, you know, our government doesn't want us to send tanks to Ukraine, but they don't want me to import one either, so that's a little silly."
Lenze joked that he would update people on the progress, so they could book their "appropriate flights or trains" at the right time to visit.
At the beginning of the year, he worked as a military correspondent from Ukraine.