The 2001 winner of the award Daniel Cohn-Bendit was a known pedophile since the 1970s:<p>Cohn-Bendit has been accused of defending and committing paedophilia, as he published a number of provocative statements regarding sex with children in the 1970s and early 1980s.<p>His 1975 book The Great Bazaar (Der grosse Basar) where he describes sexual contact with five-year-old children during his time as a teacher in an anti-authoritarian kindergarten (kinderladen [de]).[13] These were reiterated one year later in articles for the cultural-political magazine das da<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Cohn-Bendit#Accusations_of_paedophilia_and_the_defense_of_paedophilia" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Cohn-Bendit#Accusations...</a>