Last year, Andy Grote, a city senator responsible for public safety and the police in Hamburg, broke the local social distancing rules — which he was in charge of enforcing — by hosting a small election party in a downtown bar.
After Mr. Grote later made remarks admonishing others for hosting parties during the pandemic, a Twitter user wrote: “Du bist so 1 Pimmel” (“You are such a penis”).
Three months later, six police officers raided the house of the man who had posted the insult, looking for his electronic devices. The incident caused an uproar.
Activists printed stickers of the Twitter remark and plastered them around Hamburg, forcing the police to clean them up. Then activists painted a mural with the phrase, forcing the police to paint it over more than once.
The case, which quickly gained the moniker Pimmelgate (“Penisgate”) made national headlines. It raised concerns that illegal speech was too vaguely defined and gave local prosecutors and the police too much discretion about enforcement.
Not long after the incident, Alexander Mai, a 26-year-old climate activist who lives in the Bavarian city of Augsburg, got into a Facebook argument with a local far-right politician named Andreas Jurca. In response to a message by Mr. Jurca criticizing Muslims, Mr. Mai posted a link to a picture of the mural.
Several weeks later, four police officers pounded on Mr. Mai’s door at 6 a.m. with a warrant to confiscate his electronics. Mr. Jurca had filed a police report claiming the link to the photo was an insult.
The police spent over an hour rummaging through his drawers and belongings before leaving with several laptops and phones. Mr. Mai said he believed the raid was politically motivated because of his climate activism. He is working with a lawyer to fight charges of making a public insult.
“They were not here because I’m suspected of murdering someone,” Mr. Mai said in an interview. “I was just suspected of insulting someone online.”
The police spent over an hour rummaging through his drawers and belongings before leaving with several laptops and phones. Mr. Mai said he believed the raid was politically motivated because of his climate activism
You live in Germany you fucking retard. They're all in on the climate change scam.
Which is really funny because local media is now talking negatively about China, look what kind of dictatorship they are...meanwhile ignore the shit happening around them, even making fun of people back them who were against restrictions etc. German media is worse than American media(but not by a lot).
I've been watching local media do that with Russia, they've been doing it for years but since the invasion they really turned it up to 11 and broke the knob off. "Russia jails people for protesting! They're restricting speech!" - oh, you mean like our liberal democratic pro-western government which you fully support does?
“It is arguably actionable, that kind of invective against politicians. But this house search caused a lot of protest,” said German professor Jeanette Hofmann, research director at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society.
“Lots of people saw what this person wrote as completely harmless — compared to what you find on the internet and all the death threats, particularly against minorities and women. This is laughable.”
The Gestapo raids a guy over a harmless remark, yeah, that's unpleasant, BUT THINK OF THE NIGGERS AND WOMEN
Here is some more information.
https://archive.ph/WKQR6
You live in Germany you fucking retard. They're all in on the climate change scam.
The really funny thing is seeing a real life Uno reverse card play
Absolutely pathetic.
No different to China.
Which is really funny because local media is now talking negatively about China, look what kind of dictatorship they are...meanwhile ignore the shit happening around them, even making fun of people back them who were against restrictions etc. German media is worse than American media(but not by a lot).
I've been watching local media do that with Russia, they've been doing it for years but since the invasion they really turned it up to 11 and broke the knob off. "Russia jails people for protesting! They're restricting speech!" - oh, you mean like our liberal democratic pro-western government which you fully support does?
I hate NPCs so goddamn much.
I sent an article about what's happening in my own country to an anti-Putin bot, saying "look what Putin is doing now". Predictably, he was outraged.
Then I told him to look at the country where it occurred.
Same in Japan, 1 year prison terms for insulting anyone.
which is in direct contradiction to their constitution that has a clear freedom of expression clause in it.
All professional politicians are dicks, liars, thieves, and murderers.
Go to Hell, Germany.
The Gestapo raids a guy over a harmless remark, yeah, that's unpleasant, BUT THINK OF THE NIGGERS AND WOMEN
lol surprised they didn't raid the afd dude instead
i wonder how many "new germans" were caught in this wave of arrests
Probably none
To learn who rules over you, simply look for who you can't criticize.
if you want to see what shit hole germany has become , spend an hour in the Frankfurth Train Station
Only one way to stop all of this.
🔪😵
To be fair, he probably no longer has one...