The incident led to various allegations on social networks, with some talking of a “gesture of submission” or an “Islamist” attack. The cross, which has adorned the gate of the cemetery of Saint-Thomas-de-Conac (Charente-Maritime) since 1871, disappeared in April, the weekly Haute Saintonge reported on Friday ( April 22). According to a resident of the municipality, who is a descendant of the mayor who was in office when the cemetery was founded, the municipality was the trigger for this move, but did not want to comment on it.

The mayor “informed me that the cross had to be removed because of the new law”, says Guillaume Boraud. However, this reasoning contradicts the jurisprudence of the Council of State in this area, Haute Saintonge reminds us. In 2017, it had confirmed that while it was no longer possible to put religious signs on public buildings, those that existed before the 1905 law on the separation of church and state did not have to be removed.
Both the measure and the municipality’s keeping quiet irritate part of the population. “For us, this is not a conspicuous religious sign. This is the identity of France,” Guillaume complains. He also deplores the fact that the cross was simply sawn off. He criticises the ” cruelty ” of this gesture.

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The slogan of the Greens in Germany [Grün wirkt!] can now be quite literally translated into exactly the opposite of what it promises: The increasing scarcity of resources and restrictions as a result of the self-inflicted energy crisis are casting their shadows on everyday life, as “Green works!”

With eco-conscious Berlin’s “Master Water Plan”, water consumption is now being rationed for the first time – even without a drought.

The future of Germany is taking shape in Berlin. This applies not only to the open border migration policy, the city’s complete over-indebtedness or the dominance of violent clan crime, but also to the coming climate dictatorship: Due to the water shortage, which has been foreseeable for some time, the Senate is planning measures to reduce water consumption in its “Water Master Plan”.

Accordingly, the new plan is to contain more than 30 measures to reduce water consumption in the capital.

Penalties for too much consumption

And that has consequences: The water association Strausberg-Erkner (WSE) has already started rationing supplies. Initially, the limitations only applied to newcomers to the region; for them, water consumption in newly built houses is limited to 105 liters per person per day. If the quota is exceeded, fines are automatically due. But from 2025, this rule will be extended to all residents of the catchment area.

Since the previous statistical daily consumption in the affected region is 175 liters per person – and the national average is at least 126 liters – this rationing means a considerable restriction. With doctrinaire slogans reminiscent of socialist mismanagement, such as “You decide: climate protection begins at your tap,” the WSE, in the spirit of its green pacemaker, is pushing for “conscious” water consumption and reminding citizens that “filling the swimming pool, washing the car in the garden, extensive lawn irrigation are not part of the necessary drinking water supply”.

WSE association leader André Bähler identified the poor Berlin allotment garden owners as the main culprits. Although these are not registered in the association area, watering their gardens drives up consumption. The increase in water consumption in summer is not due to households, but to people trying to grow their own food.

Water use by Musk factory?

However, some also blame Tesla’s newly built Giga factory, which is located in the catchment area of ​​the WSE, for its extreme water consumption. For these, however, well, the permissible funding amounts have already been increased by the red-green state government. Different standards apply to “global player” Musk and the sacred cow e-mobility.

Musk is said to have already invested around five billion euros in the factory, a sum that the Brandenburg Ministry of Economic Affairs confirmed, even if Tesla did not want to provide any information.

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