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2019-11-24T08:19:59.630Z


Hate speech and cyberbullying poison the social and political climate, says Bavaria's Minister of Justice Eisenreich. The CSU politician therefore wants to "sharpen" the criminal law.



From the Bavarian Ministry of Justice comes a push to punish the offense insult, slander and slander harder. If it goes to Minister Georg Eisenreich of the CSU, the maximum penalties in these cases should be between two and five years in prison.

Specifically, Eisenreich calls in his draft federal law for insults a maximum sentence of two years (so far one year) and bad slander of up to three years (so far one year). For defamation should be imposed for up to five years instead of two years previously imprisonment.

"Insults are often more uninhibited in the anonymity of the Internet, have a greater reach and are virtually impossible to get rid of," argues Eisenreich. Anyone who wants to fight extremism must therefore start with the words. Eisenreich's conclusion: "We must adapt the criminal law to this development."

He also has the Cybermobbing in view, so the bullying on the Internet. Especially among children and adolescents, forms and ways of bullying have changed a lot in recent years and shifted to digital.

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Eisenreich would like to extensively modernize the offense criminal law, instead of changing it only selectively. He sees room for improvement among other things in the sanctioning of cyberbullying and hate speech against public persons. Here, the criminal law must be "sharpened", especially in so-called Hatespeech.

Persecution even without a criminal complaint

"Increasingly, minorities, politically dissenters and politicians are the target of hatred and hate," Eisenreich notes. This poisoned the social and political climate in Germany.

The Bavarian proposal also provides that, for example, racist, xenophobic, anti-Semitic or other inhuman insults can be prosecuted without a criminal complaint. "These cases affect us all," said the Bavarian Minister of Justice. "The prosecutor must also have the right to prosecute without a criminal complaint, as long as the victim does not contradict."

Source: spiegel

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