German comedian to go on trial for Trump assassination joke
A German comedian will go to court after being accused of a joke about the assassination attempt to Donald Trump last year.
Sebastian Hotz can be sentenced to up to three years in prison for comparison US president’s attempt to shoot An election campaign to try to catch the last bus in 2024.
“Unfortunately, you missed,” he wrote shortly after the shooting on July 13th.
Hotz, also known as El Hotzo, has doubled the joke after a short time: orum I find it great when the fascists die. Certainly no one forces you to be upset for fascists – you cannot do this without the slightest result. ”
Donald Trump received a slight injury in his right ear in the assassination attempt last year – Evan Vucci/AP Photo
Hotz was fired with RBB, a public publisher, and was accused of ignoring and rewarding criminal offenses.
The hearing, which was planned to start at the Berlin Tiergarten Regional Court on July 23, inflamed both the left and right critics who were divided on whether their comments will be protected by free speech.
Gerd Buourmann, a right -leaning comedian, said, “It is not a problem to bring a sacrifice to court because he says something … Everything he says is disgusting, but he should be allowed to say.”
However, others in the public eye praised the decision and showed that the Internet is not legal for everyone ”.
Elon Musk was one of the leading critics of the comedian’s comments. Tesla owner tweeted Olaf Scholz, the German Chancellor at that time: önünde In the leading US presidential candidate, someone who wants to death and the German government is paid by the German government to do so. ”
Mr. Musk later tagged Mr. Scholz on the X and asked: “Was the request das? [What is that?]”
The event is not the first person to confuse a free conversation in the comedy world. In 2016, Jan Böhmermann, a TV presenter, was accused of breaking an uncertain German law against the figures of insulting authority after a satirical poem about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo & Gbreve.
Mr. Erdo & Gbreve; AN’s “Doner’s hard neck smells” kebab and “minorities crushes to crush goats with goats,” he said.
After talking to Turkish authorities, the chancellor Angela Merkel personally approved the prosecution of the comedian.
Böhmermann, Mrs. Merkel “accused of serving a neurotic despot for tea and made me a German Ai Weiwei”, at the end of the case fell by prosecutors and the Lese-Majesty law was abolished.
