US Edition[Satire] German Editor Sentenced and Fined for Satirical Picture of Interior Minister
- David Bendels, editor of Deutschland-Kurier, was sentenced to seven months on probation and fined for sharing a satirical image of Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, according to a Bamberg district court ruling.
- The court found Bendels guilty of making a 'deliberately false factual statement' about Faeser, marking the harshest penalty for a journalist under this law in Germany, leading to widespread criticism.
- A poll indicated that only 18% of Germans feel free to express their opinions in public, highlighting a concerning climate of censorship, as noted in recent surveys.
- Bendels vowed to appeal the ruling, stating, 'We will not accept this judgment and we’ll fight it with all the legal means at our disposal.
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A journalist has now been sentenced to seven months' imprisonment on probation in the district court of Bamberg. This is reported by the BILD. The editor-in-chief of the "Deutschland-Kurier" is said to have deliberately manipulated a photo of the Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD). The journalist is said to have posted a photo montage of Faeser. On it, the minister should hold a sign in her hands, which supposedly says: "I hate …
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Utopia - you are standing in it!German Editor Sentenced and Fined for Satirical Picture of Interior Minister
We previously discussed the case of Deutschland-Kurier editor David Bendels who published a satirical meme of Interior Minister Nancy Faeser holding an altered sign that read “I hate freedom of speech.” Ironically, the sign was believable given the anti-free speech positions of Faeser and the German government. Faeser, however, went ballistic. In a country that routinely arrests people for their views, the matter was immediately turned into a c…
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