A new child-protection campaign at the municipal outdoor pool in Büren, North Rhine-Westphalia, has ignited nationwide controversy after posters showed an older white, red-haired woman grabbing the buttocks of a dark-skinned boy with a prosthetic leg. The illustration appears beside a cartoon turtle named “Tiki,” which tells children they can use the mascot’s name as a codeword to seek help against sexual assault. Conceived by the town’s youth-services office under the slogan “Sommer – Sonne – Sicherheit,” the initiative includes large poolside murals and flyers aimed at alerting minors to inappropriate touching. Critics argue the imagery creates an implausible offender profile and risks downplaying what police describe as the more common threat posed by male adolescents, many of them with migrant backgrounds. Manuel Ostermann, deputy head of the German Police Union, said the depiction “has little to do with reality,” noting that in Hessian swimming pools alone 74 sexual assaults were recorded in 2024, with foreigners accounting for roughly two-thirds of the suspects. Similar criticism was levelled last year at the Cologne public-pool operator’s “Ich sag’s!” campaign, whose posters likewise portrayed white perpetrators. The city of Büren has not yet answered media enquiries about whether it will withdraw or modify the poster. The dispute comes amid heightened public concern over violence and harassment in German pools and a broader debate about how prevention campaigns should reflect crime statistics without fostering ethnic stereotypes.