Nokia probably didn't expect the German reaction to be so strong. The wave of protests grew louder and spread to the European level. North Rhine-Westphalia discovered that the subsidies given to Nokia were not used properly, as the company did not maintain the promised number of employees in Germany. Nokia's president flew to Düsseldorf.
It seems that all Germans are standing on the side of the Nokia employees facing unemployment in Bochum. The German service and craft auction platform Undertool.de launched a special campaign. The site is collecting large quantities of second-hand Nokia phones to be transported by a shipping company to the door of Nokia's plant in Bochum and dumped there. They are also looking for a waste disposal company to destroy the phones at the factory gate in front of the media.