Overview
- Police logged 28,256 deployment hours in 2024 and 29,064 in 2023 to guard the Altona apartment, according to reporting based on official figures.
- Annual costs are estimated at up to €2 million, and a newly installed police container for the post cost at least €112,000.
- The police union and the taxpayers’ association call the permanent guarding disproportionate, seek transparency, and urge shifting the expense to the federal level.
- Hamburg’s interior authority says the city must carry the costs because there is no legal basis to bill the federal government or the BKA.
- Scholz’s office says the flat is regularly used but withholds details for security reasons.