Public prosecutor’s workplace stops investigations in opposition to Jan Fleischhauer | EUROtoday

The Munich I public prosecutor’s workplace has a minimal understanding of irony. A spokeswoman for the German Press Agency stated the investigations in opposition to columnist Jan Fleischhauer had been discontinued. It is assumed that Fleischhauer used the Nazi slogan “Germany awake” in a approach that was not punishable. It is “reporting and commentary on current events”. That is allowed.

Last December, Fleischhauer commented on his podcast “The Black Channel” with the comment “What is the AfD youth actually called? ‘Generation Hope’ or ‘Generation Germany Awake’?” made enjoyable of the AfD’s offspring. This was simple to know given the group’s founding occasion convention that had simply preceded it, together with the Hitleresque look of a speaker.

Nevertheless, the general public prosecutor’s workplace responded to a criticism and checked whether or not Fleischhauer may have violated Section 86a of the Criminal Code. This prohibits the usage of emblems or content material of unconstitutional organizations. Fleischhauer gave the prosecutors a helpful trace in a textual content that this might not be punishable beneath sure circumstances, for instance if one quotes, creates connections and makes interpretations. The prosecutors in Munich apparently understood this and obtained the hold of it simply in time.

Unlike their colleagues in Berlin, who went after the thinker Norbert Bolz due to an ironic comment on Platform Bolz additionally made an allusion to the SA slogan that Germany ought to awaken. He responded to the “taz” headline “AfD ban and Höcke petition: Germany awakens” with “Good translation of ‘woke’: Germany awakens!” Reacts. The authorized insanity in Bolz’s case started with a tip from the “Hessen gegen Hetze” reporting workplace.

In his case, writes Jan Fleischhauer, who’s completely happy that he was spared a home search on the daybreak, the informer got here from Berlin. You may have thought that, says Fleischhauer. In Munich, freedom of expression apparently shines just a little brighter than within the capital.