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| Ban on insulting world leaders could be axed immediately |
| 2016-04-23 |
| [THELOCAL.DE] The battle over TV satirist Jan Böhmermann continues to divide Germany's governing coalition in Berlin, a newspaper report suggested on Thursday. Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... had announced last Friday that the law dating back to the 19th Century would be abolished by 2018 ‐ and that satirist Jan Böhmermann could face prosecution under the law in the meantime. It's not certain that Böhmermann will have a day in court, as prosecutors must first decide whether there is a case to answer for the "smear poem" he read out against Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... on public television. But the Social Democratic Party (SPD) ‐ the junior coalition partner to Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) ‐ were unhappy with the Chancellor's decision. Now SPD Justice Minister Heiko Maas plans to have a draft bill to abolish the law on "insulting a foreign heads of state" in front of MPs in the Bundestag (German parliament) within a week, the Rheinische Post reported on Thursday, citing government sources. Many political commentators and two-thirds of the public were also against Merkel's choice to allow the prosecution to go ahead. It was seen by many as a bid to appease Erdogan's anger and keep alive a controversial refugee exchange deal struck by the EU with ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... . |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Law against saying sh*t stinks still safe, for now... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2016-04-23 17:28 |