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Controversial Proceedings for Chancellor's Insults: Court Fines "Liegenfritz"

Summary by Der Tagesspiegel
"Pinocchio and "Liegen-Kasper" went through, for "Liegenfritz" against Friedrich Merz there are 30 daily rates – because the act was suitable "to stir up aggressions".

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A monthly salary penalty for the term "Liegenfritz" for Friedrich Merz under a Facebook post – this sentence was handed down in March, as now became known. But that was not all. The prosecutor's office dealt with 39 comments, only 15 proceedings were closed.

·Dortmund, Germany
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"Pinocchio and "Liegen-Kasper" went through, for "Liegenfritz" against Friedrich Merz there are 30 daily rates – because the act was suitable "to stir up aggressions".

·Berlin, Germany
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Friedrich Merz once again has a citizen at his fingertips. A Facebook user called him "Liegenfritz", now there is a valid criminal order over 30 daily sentences in the room. No call for violence, no attack on life or limb, no threat against the chancellor. After "Pinocchio" one of many other ridicule words for the word-broken chancellor. A meager comment in the digital noise. For Merz and the apparatus he is working for, this is enough once agai…

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Der Tagesspiegel broke the news in Berlin, Germany on Tuesday, June 2, 2026.
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