The head of German arms giant Rheinmetall is refusing to be intimidated despite round-the-clock security due to a litany of threats to his safety.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Armin Papperger said \u201cchickening out\u201d was not an option in his field.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese jobs must be done and anyone that can\u2019t take the pressure doesn\u2019t belong in this job,\u201d Papperger said.<\/p>\n
The 63-year-old is under police protection due to alleged Russian murder plots and has bodyguards at his side at all times, even in Rheinmetall\u2019s Dusseldorf headquarters. His level of protection is similar to that of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is well known that my garden shed was set on fire and that there were demonstrations outside my house,\u201d Papperger said. \u201cIf that\u2019s a threat, then yes \u2013 perhaps I ought to feel threatened.\u201d<\/p>\n
The German state is protecting him as far as is humanly possible, the defence industry executive said. \u201cBut in a different job, I would certainly face a lower level of threat.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The head of German arms giant Rheinmetall is refusing to be intimidated despite round-the-clock security due to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1139117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5310],"tags":[309716,11553,113166,2000,299,15439,1824,17460,332,34879,657,771],"class_list":["post-1139116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-armin-papperger","tag-ceo","tag-dusseldorf","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-german-chancellor","tag-germany","tag-rheinmetall","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1139117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}