Justice
How a Fart Became Berlin's Weirdest Policing Scandal
It's taken an incredible amount of resources to get to the bottom of this one.
Over the past 18 months, a crime scandal has been rocking Berlin. It’s one that so far has required the work of 23 officials, necessitated a court appearance, and, this week, provoked protests from a politician on the floor of Berlin’s Senate. It’s the unusual nature of the crime that has provoked such controversy and upset. It wasn’t an act of violence against a person, a case of damage to property, or of fraud.
It was, in fact, a fart.