Jan Böhmermann: Peter Altmaier defended deliberations of the Federal Government – STERN

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+++ Altmeier defended deliberations of the Federal Government +++

Chancellery Minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) has defended the reflection of the federal government in the affair of the satirist Jan Böhmermann. “We will make that decision when we are sure that it is the right decision – and we will hit them very carefully.” He said on Thursday the ARD “Tagesthemen”

It’s the desire of Turkey to prosecution Böhmer’s. Altmaier said the talks in the federal government to be important. “I am still assuming that we will make it in the foreseeable future to a common result. But I ask you to understand that I do not want to counteract the confidentiality of the proceedings.” Before that, German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) had said that was not yet decided.

+++ ZDF presents with expertise behind Böhmermann +++

The ZDF has the legal dispute over the controversial libelous poem by Jan Böhmermann about the Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan put behind its moderator. The station said in a statement to the Mainzer prosecutor that he considered the controversial libelous poem Böhmer’s about the Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan for legally permissible.

The transmitter case was based on an expertise of the law firm Redeker Sellner Dahs, as the station announced on Thursday. “This leads to the conclusion that the disputed sequence including the so-called ‘libelous poem’ was permitted by law and, therefore, the limits have not been exceeded for criminality.”

The constitutional guarantee Satire freedom entails therefore just in relating to matters of public interest and the use of “gross stylistic devices, regardless of whether they meet personal or general flavor ideas,” it said in the ZDF statement. It lies “in the nature of satire, through targeted drawings, which are also applied to foment emotions and reactions of the public to draw attention to an issue carefully and to criticize”.

+++ Erdogan German lawyer expects a process +++

the German lawyer of Turkish leaders expects a civil process. Since Böhmermann did not issue a cease and desist letter to the deadline, a process according to Michael Hubertus von Sprenger is probably: “I assume so,” he said on a demand. Now he was preparing an injunction, which must be filed within one month. In the declaration of the denied Böhmermann, is the obligation to refrain from repeating the libelous poem about Erdogan or to spread again.

+++ government has not yet decided +++

When high-level meeting of the coalition there was still no decision on the formal request of Turkey to prosecution Böhmer’s. In journalistic inquiries said Chancellor Angela Merkel merely: “The discussions [...] to take and we will inform you if they are stopped..”

+++ ZDF employees want deleted Böhmermann broadcast again see in the library +++

the employees of ZDF are divided on the question of the issue “Neo Magazine Royal”. The shipment of 31 March, in the moderator libelous poem was read, was deleted after a short time from the library of the transmitter. As the “Mirror” reported now some employees of ZDF plead internally that the program is placed back in the library again -. Finally, it states that it is already a document of contemporary history

+++ Böhmermann will not make any declaration of +++

Recep Tayyip Erdogan Jan Böhmermann had demanded omission explanation for his insulting poem on him. But Böhmermann has refused to do so: At midnight, the deadline for a declaration of failure expired. Böhmer’s lawyer Christian Schertz has confirmed a report of the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”. He had told Erdogan lawyers, it was “obviously been overlooked that the poem was not widespread solitary, but in an overall view of what is allowed in Germany and what is not”.

+++ Böhmer’s colleague Olli Schulz commented on the case +++

Olli Schulz moderated regularly with Jan Böhmermann. The common radio broadcast on Sunday should not take place after the withdrawal Böhmer’s. In an interview with Radio Eins Schulz expressed for the first time on the case. While Justice has not yet decided whether the statement read out by Böhmermann Verse satire, or rather criminal defamation criticism are, Schulz referred to the poem in an interview even himself as insulting criticism.