University Professor Arrested for Calling German “Nazi” at Frankfurt Airport
Upon investigation, the Federal Police determined the bag contained no explosive material, but that the passenger had too many liquids and they were not inside a clear plastic bag, as required. Officers suggested she either place a stick of roll-on deodorant in her checked baggage or discard it. That’s when she flipped. The U.S. passenger reacted angrily towards these suggestions and became increasingly uncooperative. She began to insult the Federal Police officers, by calling them, among other names, “fucking bastards” and “fucking German Nazi police”, as witnesses can confirm. She was taken to a local police office and held for defamation (damaging the good reputation of someone). Authorities asked her to pay 260USD in anticipation of the legal costs in a proceeding against her. She reluctantly paid, was released, and traveled on a later flight to Istanbul. The press release continues– Subsequently, the U.S. traveler claims on her Twitter channel and via an Internet blog to have been robbed by the police in Frankfurt. She also continues to insult the Federal Police officers and the security staff as “bully” and “thugs in uniform”, among other things. These insults have also become evidence in the preliminary investigations.C. Christine Fair, the passenger in question, is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University. She addressed the issue in a column in the Huffington Post. She uses big words like incommodious, harridan and quotidian, which impresses no one. Claiming her innocent and polite questions were construed as a defiance of authority, she explains how she was humiliated by authorities unpacking her bag in the view of the others (then lamenting that she did not bring her dildo along…).
What an embarrasment. I lived in Germany for years - they don't take kindly to someone calling their officers "Nazis." Georgetown should have fired the hag for that incident, but they didn't. And they won't fire her now.
