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by smiggels10
495 days ago
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You can express your opinion about everything and everybody, including politicians, in public as much as you want in germany. But first paragraph in the german constitution is about human dignity ("Menschenwürde"), not freedom of speech. Which means, that when you insult somebody in public, it can happen that the affected person might sue you, and that a court might judge that you hurt the person's dignity. The consequence might be, that you have to pay a fee. Recently there were cases of police operations at the homes of people who where accused of insulting a politician. Those operations where heavily criticized in the german public and followed by a court rouling, that judged that the police overreacted in those cases. Somehow, in certain circles, this whole story gets shortened to "If you criticize the government in germany, your home gets raided by the police". |
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If this is it, I couldn’t say better, thank you. I heard about those cases, but apparently do not belong to those circles to connect the dots.