In Berlin, the year begins with an election campaign. On February 12, the election to the House of Representatives will be repeated there. A CDU election poster causes a stir because of a possible allusion to the rapper arrest warrant. “What criminals will soon hear more often: Arrest warrant,” reads the election poster.
On their Instagram channel, the CDU Berlin wrote under their post: “The fact that far too few criminals hear arrest warrants is not due to their taste in music. The mills of the Berlin judiciary often grind too slowly.”
The rapper himself apparently took the incident with humor. In his Instagram story he posted one of the photos with an election poster set up in Berlin. He did not comment further.
The Berliner Tagesspiegel wanted to know whether the allusion was even intended by the CDU. The party replied: “Chabos know who Wegner is.” This in turn is an allusion to the arrest warrant song “Chabos know who Babo is” and the top candidate of the Berlin CDU, Kai Wegner.
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