After driving under the influence of alcohol with more than 1.3 per thousand and presenting the A Green Party politician from the Berlin district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf resigned from her post after a Nazi salute. This is reported by “Bild”, citing a police report on Saturday.
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On Saturday evening, Jutta Boden, district councilor in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, was stopped by the police on the A115. The police had one suspicion: drunk driving.
The police officers' suspicions were confirmed: according to the report, a breathalyzer test showed a Alcohol level of 1.34 per thousand reported to the 63-year-old man. This meant that she had to leave her car in Dreilinden in Brandenburg, just beyond the southwestern city limits of Berlin, and sit in the police car.
According to the police report, the communications management graduate will then showed the Hitler salute twice to have. Be there also the words “Heil Hitler” fallen. The district policy initially denied the incident to the “Bild-Zeitung”, but shortly afterwards confirmed it.
According to her own statements, she simply wanted to point out that she felt she had been treated unfairly by the officers. She would have asked why they were treating her that way; she wouldn't do the Hitler salute. When speaking these words, she would have raised her right arm, but she would not have said “Heil Hitler”.
In a later email, Boden sounded contrite. She reacted “inappropriately” to police supervision and considers her behavior “unacceptable”. The green politician wants take responsibility for their actions and resign their mandate accordingly.
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Boden was generally responsible for the district's health and cultural policy. As part of the district council meeting, she also addressed the topics of integration and ongoing training. She has been a member of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district council since 2019 and between 2012 and 2016. According to her own statements, her favorite place in Berlin is the University of the Arts.