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Convention of Ministers of Justice: The Paragraph on Insulting Politicians Will Have to Be Restricted

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In step with the needs of the Convention of Ministers of Justice, the prolonged prison framework for insulting politicians will have to follow simplest to native officers and elected officers. Division heads at their spring assembly in Hamburg authorized a corresponding request from Saxony and Baden-Württemberg to restrict the particular law in Phase 188 of the Penal Code. Information Z+ (subscription content material); Insults: “It’s not about …

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Hamburg (dpa) – According to the Justice Minister's Conference, the extended penal framework for politicians' insults should only apply to municipal officials and mandate holders. The department heads agreed to a corresponding request by Saxony and Baden-Württemberg to restrict the special regulation in paragraph 188 of the Criminal Code at their spring meeting in Hamburg. Therefore, the general criminality of insults, which is regulated in para…

Hamburg – The Conference of Justice Ministers has decided to limit the legal criminality of politician insults in the future. It is planned that insults, evil talk and slanders according to Section 188 of the Criminal Code will only apply to municipal officials and elected representatives. Until now, the law protects all "persons of political life".The application, which was submitted by Saxony and Baden-Württemberg, is intended to significantly…

The CDU/CSU parliamentary group welcomes the initiative by the justice ministers to remove top politicians from the criminal offense of insulting politicians. "The same rules must apply to citizens and top politicians when it comes to insults," said Martin Plum (CDU), legal advisor to the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, to the Rheinische Post (Saturday edition). The decision by the Conference of Justice Ministers points in the right direction. "We …

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berliner-sonntagsblatt.de broke the news on Friday, June 12, 2026.
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