Berlin's tourism authority has retracted an advert showing an elderly lady giving the middle finger to those who refuse to wear masks in public.
The German capital has decided to drop the controversial image which appeared on posters for the 'Berlin against Corona' campaign. Branded with the slogan "we follow the corona rules" the punkish pensioner appeared alongside the words: "raising an accusatory finger for all those without masks".
Visit Berlin, the city's tourism board, said it had tried a diverse range of approaches eventually settling upon bold typeface posters, which it produced in English, Turkish and Arabic for the multinational city.
For their French neighbours the city printed the cheeky motto "Liberté, égalité, charité? Keep it to yourself".