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by 1cvmask 1866 days ago
Imprisoning photographers of the police is a already a punishable crime in France. So do we call the leaders like Macron an autocrat or dictator like we do in other countries.

https://www.france24.com/en/france/20201121-new-french-law-b...

Meanwhile cops and national guardsman violently attack journalists and protestors and their phones in all the protests ranging from Ferguson, Baltimore in the Obama era to the George Floyd ones in the summer under Trump era.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-p...

https://www.vox.com/2014/8/19/6047123/nearly-a-third-of-thos...

https://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/19/us/ferguson-journalists-a...

https://www.insider.com/117-journalists-arrested-or-detained...

https://cpj.org/2020/08/charges-remain-against-journalists-a...

The journalists and citizen journalists are under constant attack.

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Germany is not France. No German court will not punish you for filming an officer abusing a civilian/protestor/etc. But you will be punished for taking a gore video of someone dying.
It is in Germany too. You are generally entitled to your own image.

https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/photography-laws-germany