Interim injunction in opposition to ARD’s Boateng movie | EUROtoday

The underage youngsters of former nationwide soccer participant and Bayern skilled Jérôme Boateng are now not allowed to be proven within the ARD collection “Being Jérôme Boateng”. Bayerischer Rundfunk and the movie’s manufacturing firm accepted a corresponding interim injunction from the Hamburg regional courtroom and issued cease-and-desist declarations with penalties. This was introduced by the Schertz Bergmann regulation agency, which represents Boateng’s youngsters.

The youngsters’s mom objected to the publication of images earlier than this system was broadcast. However, Bayerischer Rundfunk ignored the mom’s acknowledged needs. After a warning was unsuccessful, an interim injunction was utilized for. Photos of Boateng’s youngsters have been proven a complete of 11 instances in this system.

According to the Schertz Bergmann regulation agency, the collection has been criticized because it was first broadcast, making it all of the extra vital that the youngsters of the previous nationwide participant can now not be exploited.

In 2024, Boateng was sentenced to a superb and a warning with a penalty for intentional bodily hurt. The 2018 incident he was accused of concerned his then associate – the mom of his youngsters. This is barely talked about in passing within the documentary.

For this motive, there was criticism of “Being Jérôme Boateng”, but additionally due to the dialogue of Boateng’s relationship with the mannequin Kasia Lenhardt, who took her personal life initially of 2021. Attorney Alexander Stevens, who seems within the documentary as a legal regulation knowledgeable, mentioned his statements have been vastly abbreviated and brought out of context. The journalist Gabriela Keller and the podcaster Gizem Çelik criticized what they noticed because the poor editorial processing of their contributions within the movie. As he informed the German Press Agency, the lawyer for Kasia Lenhardt’s household had “clearly” requested on their behalf “not to take up the issue of Kasia Lenhardt.” But then that occurred.

The ARD and Bayerischer Rundfunk defended the manufacturing. The interviewees who converse in “Being Jérôme Boateng” have been knowledgeable that the previous soccer participant was collaborating within the documentary. The documentary reproduced their “central classifications”.