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Unterfranken Man Fined €825 for Nazi Symbol Posts on X

The court imposed a 55-day fine for four counts of using unconstitutional symbols after dropping charges over a political insult considered less significant

64-Jähriger erhält Geldstrafe wegen X-Posts mit „Hitlergruß“
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Overview

  • Amtsgericht Haßfurt found the 64-year-old guilty of spreading Nazi-referencing images and sentenced him to 55 daily fines of €15 each, totaling €825
  • Prosecutors pointed to posts featuring Adolf Hitler shaking hands with a clergyman and a doctored Spiegel cover showing Green politician Katharina Schulze giving the Hitler salute
  • Two additional charges were dismissed when the court ruled those posts qualified as satire and were protected under freedom of expression
  • Investigations into the initial August 2024 insult against former Economics Minister Robert Habeck were provisionally discontinued as the court deemed them less severe
  • The defense challenged the authorship of the content as critically used historical imagery and filed a bias motion against the judge, which the court rejected