If Kai Wegner, the governing mayor of Berlin, looked in the mirror last Saturday, he probably saw a man who was faced with a lot of unexpected stress over the weekend and “just wanted to clear his head.” In any case, you can roughly summarize the decision that Wegner (CDU) made: As the RBB first reported on Wednesday evening, he went to play tennis for an hour at lunchtime.
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