Stolen Christmas: Bavarian children are forbidden to write traditional letters to Santa
In Bavarian kids, adults stole Christmas. City authorities Roth forbid children to write letters to Santa Claus and hang them on the city trees. The tradition, which for many decades, was unexpectedly canceled due to the new EU law on confidentiality.
Officials saw in the children's letters to the birth wizard a real threat to the safety of minors, since the children not only write Santa about their desires and dreams, but also indicate their names, age, and home addresses so that Santa can deliver gifts to them on Christmas night.
The new EU law on confidentiality provides for the mandatory written consent of the parents of each child to disclose personal data, while officials must be sure that adults are sanity and perfectly understand all possible responsibility for the consequences, because not only the winter can remove the child’s letters from the tree and read them. a magician, but everyone who wants it - the trees in the city are not guarded by the police.
The abolition of the longstanding tradition has caused outrage among parents and genuine indignation among children, because they have been waiting for these magical and fabulous winter days for a whole year. A squall of criticism struck the local authorities.
Social activists have taken up the matter, who by all means decided to save Christmas for the kids. They have already begun to create a sample permit document that parents can quickly fill in so that the child can still write a message to Santa and hang it on the Christmas tree.
The scandal with the stolen Christmas has gone far beyond the borders of Bavaria, and the European Commission has already stated that the authorities of the town of Roth simply misunderstood the essence of the new law on confidentiality.
Christmas in Bavaria, as in most countries with a predominantly Catholic population, is celebrated on December 25th.