German restaurant bears out pandemic with pandas

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Pandemic pandas filled up this German restaurant

Locator: Frankfurt, Germany

Date: November 24, 2020

Owner of a Frankfurt restaurant

filled the tables with a hundred stuffed pandas

to protest against the lockdown measures in Germany

(SOUNDBITE) (German) GUISEPPE FICHERA, MANAGER OF RESTAURANT "PINO", SAYING:"We wanted to get some life back into our restaurant. We thought of teddy bears but the teddy bears became panda bears because panda and pandemic. And so they are Panda-Mic pandas. // It is a silent protest. An offer to our guests. And we will keep it lit 24 hours long as long as there is a lockdown, so our guests, our potential guest can see this and enjoy it around the clock."