Lars Wienand's reporting is the point at which individual observations become a figure. t-online documents that Berlin police attended the Russian House at least 33 times during 2024 because Lindemeier was standing outside with his speaker. Those deployments were prompted by reports from inside the House.
The central episode is 18 December 2024. Lindemeier was arrested outside the Russian House, handcuffed, held in a communal cell for four hours and subjected to forensic identification procedures. The allegation was insult and noise nuisance in the preceding weeks; it was not substantiated. In subsequent proceedings the police had to concede formally that the deployment had been unlawful. This remains the only official acknowledgement of error in the entire affair.
The juxtaposition the article draws is striking. The day before the arrest, Lindemeier had called the police himself, because a visitor to the House had told him he would get a knife in the back one day. He waited 45 minutes. No one came.
Two lawyers assess this asymmetry in the piece. Patrick Heinemann calls it strange that the police keep pursuing nonsense. Christian Wolf reduces the imbalance to a formula: a reported noise nuisance sometimes brings three patrol cars, while no one was available when his client was threatened.
t-online also documents that noise measurements were never carried out, and that a complaint alleging incitement collapsed once the state criminal police had the disputed song lyrics translated.