Court bans further passages from book about Helmut Kohl. Kohl's widow Maike Kohl-Richter has won a victory in court.
The Cologne Higher Regional Court banned further passages on Tuesday. These not only concern quotes from Kohl, but also descriptions and assessments by the author Heribert Schwan, who previously worked as a ghostwriter for the former Chancellor. Schwan: "If I had been asked to keep things confidential, I would have run away. From a journalistic point of view, it is 'unbelievable'