I always think we have hit rock bottom when it comes to German speech crime prosecutions, but then somehow things always manages to get worse.
I suspect this prosecution arises from some kind of automatic flagging process triggered by an error in an electronic transcription. The misunderstanding here is just so egregious and unnatural, I can’t imagine it originating with a human. A minimum of three people (Officer Fehrer, the prosecutor and a judge) did, however, sign off on our misfiring censorship bot, which is pretty crazy when you think about it.
Heldt has vowed to fight the case, and so there will be a trial. I’d like to say that he has every chance of winning, but he just doesn’t, especially in the first instance. Germany has become total madhouse.
This story displaces the notorious Poop Emoji Prosecution of Sachsen-Anhalt from 2023 as the stupidest speech crime indictment thus far. For those who don’t remember, some guy wanted to call former Economics Minister Robert Habeck a “piece of shit” two years ago, but to soften his language he used the poop emoji instead, earning himself a fine of €600 fine via summary judgement. In the words of the prosecution, “the witness Habeck feels that his honour has been violated … in particular by your use of the emoji.”
Disclaimer: I hereby distance myself from this and deplorable National Socialist slogans and symbols.
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