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  • Berlin backtracks after accusing U.S. of ‘piracy’ when 200,000 masks went missing

    04/05/2020 12:39:01 PM PDT · by bitt · 20 replies
    WAPO ^ | 3/5/2020 | BRIAN MURPHY
    A Berlin official, who accused the U.S. administration of “piracy” after 200,000 masks for the city police went missing, backtracked Saturday and said the masks were ordered from a German firm. In a statement distributed by the city mayor’s office and senate a day earlier, Andreas Geisel, Berlin’s senator for the interior, was quoted as saying a delivery of FFP2 masks only made it as far as Bangkok before it was “confiscated.” He had said the consignment was ordered from a U.S. firm and “we are currently assuming that this is related to the U.S. government’s ban on mask exports.”...