Regarding culture and affordability, there are some crazy things. In the next city there is an opera house. Which runs so hard into the red that each and every ticked is subsidized with several hundred Euro. The tickets are still expensive enough so that only the rich can afford them.

And this in a city that already runs on a big deficit.

If they don’t want to end on the receiving end of a criminal investigation, then why do they break the law?

There has always (in the last seven decades) been legal ways to protest and make ones voice heard without being a criminal.

As if declaring a term as verboten would make the problem go away somehow.

He probably also thinks that declaring the term “gravity” as illegal would make them all float.