Bettina Jarasch, Senator for Transport and top candidate for the Greens, has received a threatening letter with death threats. A comment from BZ employee Mareike Sophie Drünkler Photo: ADAM BERRY/AFP
By Mareike Sophie Drünkler
As the police announced, a letter addressed to Bettina Jarasch arrived in the Berlin House of Representatives on Thursday. Content: insults, a death threat and a bullet from a gun.
This is the peak of the threats that Jarasch had to endure during the election campaign. We asked ourselves in the editorial office: Why her? And we came to the conclusion: Typically, a classic, strong woman is put down.
Whether Ricarda Lang, Angela Merkel, US Vice President Kamala Harris or Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin – women are often attacked much more personally and violently in politics than their male colleagues.
The pattern is almost always the same: general frustration, the anger is randomly projected onto another person. The victims of such crimes did nothing wrong. It’s hardly about politics.
Bettina Jarasch “can’t be intimidated,” her spokesman told us. Fortunately.