The state elections in Hesse are just around the corner. Very old fakes come back to the table in advance.
A picture that is many years old is used there. The picture caused a lot of discussion back in 2015, but its authenticity cannot be doubted.
Two sports cars (Ferrari & Porsche) are parked in the disabled parking spaces in front of the Green Party headquarters in Cologne. This picture is real and you can also find another picture online from a different perspective. See for example here , but also here .

Already in 2013
The recordings are from 2013 and were taken by journalist Tobias Gillen and uploaded to the internet. The comments quickly exploded and the picture and its content gained an uncontrollable momentum of their own.
Briefly to clarify: on November 19, 2013, Kevin Liebig, employee of the Cologne Green District Association office, made it clear in an interview with Spiegel :
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Mr. Liebig, you seem to be earning well when you look at the sports cars in front of the door, right?
Liebig: They're not from us. We are just tenants in the house. The sports cars belong to the bosses of the rental company.
These bosses of the rental company are also the homeowners and installed the disabled parking signs themselves. The reason is very simple: hardly anyone comes up with the idea of parking in “their” parking spaces.
Actually
There it is, this word, which actually means something completely different: Actually, the whole story here would be ended and cleared up. The picture is real, but the vehicles do not belong to the GREENS, and the signage of the parking spaces as disabled parking spaces is of a rather dubious nature.
The story would actually be over if it weren't for the momentum that develops quickly in social networks because people don't question the content . The image, which is rather humorous due to its visual motif, was very often misinterpreted and turned into a shitstorm against the party. “Preaching water and drinking wine” is something we read again and again in this context, but the people being targeted have nothing to do with it.
The image was quickly used politically. At the same time, members of other parties use the image to stir up a little mud. Of course, without questioning what exactly the situation represents. By the way, the allegations can still be read today, although the ownership of the vehicles has long been clarified:
Crazy! RT “ @tobiasgillen : I would like to let this picture – in all its facets – appear without comment. http://t.co/0sKCdXZm4o ”
— M. Grosse-Brömer (@MGrosseBroemer) November 19, 2013
The author himself also found himself caught in the crossfire: in the wake of the media hype, he also became the target of hostility. You can see one or two insults from the journalist's Facebook page.

These insults prompted Gillen to delete the image from his pages and not distribute it further. At the same time, you also have to be aware that if you continue to distribute the image of the author Gillen himself, you are definitely committing a copyright infringement.
Til today
To this day, Gillen is still subjected to wild insults, some of which are completely undifferentiated and also misunderstand the matter itself. From a very recent tweet from this morning it can be seen that there are always misunderstandings regarding copyright.
Interesting take on copyright following a request to delete my photo. I'll think about it next time! pic.twitter.com/a6Ic9NttWj — Tobias Gillen (@tobiasgillen) November 25, 2015
The fact is: the photo was deleted by the author. It is no longer distributed by the author on any public platform, so you can no longer legally share it and distribute it yourself.
The journalist already gave the reasons for deleting the image on his own homepage in 2013, which we are able to display here with kind permission.
Ferrari Green picture: What I learned from the social media wave and why I deleted the picture Nov 20, 2013 / By Tobias Gillen / 79 comments
It's 2:51 p.m. on Monday when I decide to share a picture on Twitter and a little later on Facebook. On it you can see: the office of the Cologne district association of the Greens, two parking spaces designated for disabled people, a Porsche and a Ferrari. You can now roughly imagine what effect this picture had. I gave him the addition: “I would like to let this picture – in all its facets – appear without comment.” It worked. Unfortunately, little by little in a direction that I can no longer and do not want to support. What I learned from the experience and what conclusions I drew from it. The picture undoubtedly implied a connection between the Greens and the two sports cars, even without commentary. The picture also implied that two sports cars (without a disabled permit!) are parked in parking spaces reserved for disabled people. The combination of the many levels on which the image is both sadly remarkable and just plain funny prompted me to post it. It didn't take long for the first retweets to arrive, the first users to favorite my tweet and share my picture on Facebook. Actually nothing unusual, after all, such a motif is simply intended to be shared. It became clear to most people relatively quickly that the sports cars obviously didn't belong to the Greens. They laughed, retweeted, replied briefly, and it was over. But at some point the matter took on a dangerous momentum of its own, which I find very exciting and remarkable, but not when I am the origin and center of it all. My Twitter app was virtually unusable for the rest of Monday afternoon, and there was a similar picture on Facebook. In the evening I had my first concerns: Shouldn't I delete the picture before the mood changes? Shouldn't I rather end the whole thing before it's too late? I left it online. I do not know why. Maybe because I still believe that the picture was something to smile about - and wasn't intended to trigger hate tirades against Greens, disabled people, politicians in general and me. But maybe also because I underestimated the situation. [… continue on Tobias Gillen’s homepage ]
Tobias Giller also reacted to the recent publications of this picture.
Suddenly it's back...
At some point I decide to delete the picture. The situation calms down after that and I move on from the topic. In the last few days, however, the number of hits on my website has been increasing to levels not seen in a long time. The reason for this is that the image has been unearthed again and is making the rounds again. Some users remember my explanation from back then and link it . Hence the clicks, but it is still unclear why the picture is making the rounds without my permission?
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