Hamburg's Golden Pudel has released a statement in the wake of a fire at the building that houses the club last weekend.
The statement reads:We, the Pudel and Park Fiction, would like to thank you from our hearts for your sympathies. The reaction in the past weeks and especially now after the fire has been massive. We have received messages of solidarity from Hamburg, the whole country, and from all over the world—along with ideas, visions and offers of help. All of this gives us courage and the hope of rebuilding the Pudel very soon. We hope to see you all soon at the club.
The fire is being treated as likely arson by investigators. Police say about 150 people were inside the club when the blaze took hold at the (now closed) café above the venue on Saturday, February 13th, and that everyone was able to escape uninjured. The incident happened with the Golden Pudel mired in a legal dispute between the building's two owners, Rocko Schamoni and Wolf Richter. The building was set to go up for auction on April 20th, with the club saying it was "thinking long, hard and collectively" about the Pudel's future in the meantime.
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