“Anyone who incites hatred against parts of the population and attacks the human dignity of others by insulting, maliciously scorning, or slandering a group or part of the population is liable to be prosecuted,” Thuringia’s AfD chief Björn Höcke wrote on Twitter after filing the complaint.
“An official who uses such language not only violates the rule of moderation but also dehumanizes,” Thuringia’s AfD chief Björn Höcke wrote in response to Kramer’s inflammatory remarks.
She didn’t think she had committed any crime in referring to the French president as “a piece of filth” on Facebook. French authorities thought otherwise.
The cartoons are featured in a special edition marking the anniversary of the deadly Islamist attack the publisher’s Paris office suffered on January 7th, 2015.
