New brothel in Berlin: Operators fight for building permit in court!

New brothel in Berlin: Operators fight for building permit in court!

The operators of the brothel "Artemis" in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf cannot be broken! On Monday, they want to enforce a building permit for another, larger brothel before the administrative court in Berlin. This was announced in a press release from the Berlin Administrative Court, as reported by the Berliner Morgenpost . The new brothel is to be created directly opposite the existing "Artemis", in a hall that previously served as a wine trade.

According to the operator Hakim Ş. and Kenan Ş. If the building permit was already applied for in 2019 at the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district office, but there has been no progress since then. Now that the building is available for other uses, the state of Berlin is facing and tries to prevent the company as a brothel without revealing the reasons for it. In the past, the “Artemis” was already searched by the police in 2016 in a large -scale raid, but the allegations of tax evasion proved to be unjustified, and the state of Berlin had to pay the operator 250,000 euros in compensation, as well as apologizing.

legal situation and building permits

The legal framework for such projects are complex. The law to carry out the market monitoring of harmonized construction products, most recently updated in April 2024, play a central role here. It regulates the regulations under which construction products are monitored and approved in order to secure standards and guarantee the safety of the construction projects berlin.de . In this quantity, the decision of the court for the operators of "Artemis" could be of crucial importance, because the planned Großbordell would be the largest of its kind in Berlin, with an area of ​​3,000 square meters that is to be used for sexual services.