London / Cologne - The disgusting praise from Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone (78) for Adolf Hitler> in The Times raises serious global outrage.
Ecclestone as Ekelstone - a week before the Grand Prix of Germany at the Nurburgring just disgusting. In EXPRESS politicians calling for his resignation.
Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress in New York, is outraged: "How can a ghost Ecclestone goes full throttle into the offside. Someone who shows such a level of disregard for democracy may not be such an important leader of a worldwide sporting event. "The teams in Formula 1 and the host countries of each race should end its cooperation with Ecclestone, he urges.
DOSB boss Michael Vesper asks, "Ecclestone was raised by his utterance sidelined. He should apologize and retract his statement before he sets foot on German soil! "
Unions criticized Vice Wolfgang Bosbach (Cologne): "Mr Ecclestone must know that he makes no friends in Germany, if he so expressed - except in certain circles." There is already "bad enough" if a private person, "such unspeakably stupid blather "give of themselves," but a world association should consider very carefully whether he can still afford such a representative. "
FDP general secretary Dirk Niebel (Hamburg) says: "The Formula 1 boss has with his anti-democratic statements disqualified for events that just pull the youth in their spell."
The criticism in the FIA World Council next Ecclestone by Hermann Tomczyk represented ADAC: "The ADAC has himself suffered under the dictatorship of the Third Reich, was then forcefully removed. Therefore, such statements should not comment on something like this is completely unnecessary, regardless of the person who said it. "
Get Ekelstone now ring ban? Demanded at Nurburgring CEO Dr. Walter Kafitz. "One can not justify the crimes of Hitler, one can not praise a mass murderer" clarifies Kafitz, but will before a meeting with his business partner (Ecclestone collected annually 15 million euro for the Formula-1-rights) to draw any conclusions, " I know his English way of expressing things bluntly, can not imagine, but the best of intentions, that he has said so fully. "And if they were?
