Erdogan had asked the German government to prosecute. The government gave the prosecution permission Friday to decide whether there really needs to be passed to prosecution. In a statement made Bundes Chancellor Angela Merkel know that the government will not comment on the decision does on the case itself. This report various media Friday. According to Merkel, it is a matter for the prosecution and the judges to weigh the interests against the freedom of press and art, not of the government. She indicated that press freedom and freedom of expression to the most important values in Germany to hear, but also pointed to the German law that gives a foreign head of state the right to request prosecution if he or she feels insulted.
the decision of the cabinet for permission to authorize a criminal investigation was not a unanimous decision, but the voice of the German Federal Chancellor was the deciding factor in the cessation of the vote. Critics now accuse Merkel to make a bow to Erdogan because they need it to stop the influx of refugees via Turkey to Europe.
Jan Böhmermann.las last month in a satirical TV program a poem which, inter alia said that the Turkish President Erdogan has a little sex and had sex with sheep. Erdogan was furious. According to Article 103 of the Penal Code, the German government must decide whether insult a friendly head of state should be prosecuted. The German government said Friday off wanting the article in the German law Merkel calls the section of the law is not outdated and unnecessary. She said it lapsed in 2018, know nu.nl
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