Thank you for the clarification. However, I’m having trouble understanding why anyone was punished at all for calling the convicted rapist a pig. Is there more to it than that?
That's not why she was convicted - she looked up one rapist on social media, found his private number and then texted him messages including threats of violence.
Well, the first right offered to Germans by their constitution is the right to dignity, so it would be only fair for them to be strict on defamation laws.
Yeah, I knew that defamation laws were pretty strict in a number of European countries, but like, he is a convicted rapist. I don’t understand how “pig” could be considered defamation.
I'm not familiar to the case, and my german isn't that good, but it seems like the woman missed a court hearing for another offence, and she did two days in prison for that one, not the insulting.
Insulting is a misdemeanor, and I think all you get is a fine.
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u/HomsarWasRight Mar 04 '25
Thank you for the clarification. However, I’m having trouble understanding why anyone was punished at all for calling the convicted rapist a pig. Is there more to it than that?