The name Kärcher entered French domestic denunciation in 2005 when a then interior apportion Nicolas Sarkozy visited a Parisian suburb where an 11-year-old child had been shot dead.
He betrothed residents a crackdown on crime, saying: “Starting tomorrow, we’re going to purify this estate with Kärchers.”
The association says that even 11 years later its name has been used “in association with a political, argumentative or disastrous issue” and pronounced it “harms a company, a values and a clients”.
Sarkozy, who was boss from 2007 to 2012, is behest to win the right-wing assignment to make a bid to recover a presidency.
In a minute sent to Alain Juppe, who is heading Sarkozy in a right-wing field, Kärcher said: “For several months, we have beheld that a company’s name has been frequently used on a domestic scene, in propinquity to subjects which are supportive to contend a least.”
The minute went on: “We wish we will assistance move a stop to this trend by respecting a trademarks and by usually regulating a term Kärcher to impute to our products.”
Juppe’s right-hand male Gilles Boyer posted a minute on Twitter, adding the comment: “I know your concerns though we consider we have sent it to the wrong person.”
Sarkozy, Juppe and 5 other possibilities will conflict it out for the right-wing assignment in a two-round primary subsequent month.
Article source: https://www.thelocal.de/20161020/german-hosemaker-blasts-use-of-name-in-french-election-campaign