German Interior Minster Alexander Dobrindt on Tuesday said that the number of politically motivated crimes in Germany – ranging from hate speech to acts of physical violence – reached a record high of…
Okay, but you’re misinformed and trying to prove a point that’s just not related to the report linked in this thread. If you were interested in if this statistic is useful and what information is contained in it, you’d just translate some pages and read before making wild assumptions based on nothing but your ideology.
Yes, violence does not constitute the major part of felonies mentioned in the report. 37% are property damage and “propaganda offences” = using anti-constitutional symbols like swastikas, etc. A further 40% are insults, intimidation, coercion, incitement of violence, etc. And this has nothing to do with hate speech laws. It’s not the state who’s suing here but people who have been insulted, intimidated, etc. and it’s of course very much their right to sue in this case.
Okay, but you’re misinformed and trying to prove a point that’s just not related to the report linked in this thread. If you were interested in if this statistic is useful and what information is contained in it, you’d just translate some pages and read before making wild assumptions based on nothing but your ideology.
Yes, violence does not constitute the major part of felonies mentioned in the report. 37% are property damage and “propaganda offences” = using anti-constitutional symbols like swastikas, etc. A further 40% are insults, intimidation, coercion, incitement of violence, etc. And this has nothing to do with hate speech laws. It’s not the state who’s suing here but people who have been insulted, intimidated, etc. and it’s of course very much their right to sue in this case.