Germanys Protestant head arrested for drink driving

By Allan Hall in Berlin Published: 11:23AM GMT twenty-three February 2010

Bishop Margot Kaessmann Photo: EPA

Police pulled over Bishop Margot Kaessmann, 51, at the circle of her absolute VW Phaeton car after she ran a red light in Hanover.

A certain breath exam resulted in her being driven to a military hire where she gave a red blood sample, the formula of that were expelled yesterday sunrise by the open prosecutor"s bureau in the city.

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She had a blood-alcohol celebration of the mass of 1.54 mg over 3 times the authorised limit. An involuntary excellent and loss of looseness will follow. It stays misleading if the situation will cost her pursuit as head of the nation"s Protestant faith.

Bishop Kaessmann after said; "I have fearful myself that I done such a bad error. I am wakeful how dangerous and insane it is to have ethanol at the circle of a car. I will of course accept the authorised consequences."

In Germany the authorised extent is 0.5 milligrams of ethanol per 100 millilitres of blood

Bishop Kaessmann, who is the head of twenty-five million Protestants in Germany, has been a thorn in the side of the Berlin supervision not long ago with her steady calls for Germany to travel afar from the mission in Afghanistan.

A mom of four, she is the usually divorced Bishop in the country.