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By: Andreas Jäger
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The lawyer Ulrich Vosgerau was partly misquoted by Correctiv.
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A “Correctiv” report has been making waves for weeks.
Now the Hamburg regional court has issued an order in the dispute over the representation.
Hamburg - It's been making headlines for weeks: the meeting of right-wing extremists with entrepreneurs and members of the AfD and CDU that took place in a hotel near Potsdam last November.
At the beginning of January, the media company Correctiv
reported
on the event.
There was talk of a “secret meeting” and a “secret plan”.
What particularly caused a stir was a lecture on remigration by the Austrian Martin Sellner, who was classified as a right-wing extremist - according to
Correctiv
, this was also about the retroactive withdrawal of German citizenship.
However, there have been doubts about the accuracy of the research for some time, some of those involved in the meeting have filed a complaint and the report has now been revised several times.
“Correctiv” is said to have distorted Vosgerau’s statement
A further correction of the text will now be necessary, because the constitutional lawyer and author Ulrich Vosgerau, who was present at the meeting, achieved partial success before the Hamburg district court on Tuesday.
An injunction was issued
against
Correctiv .
This means that the research platform is no longer allowed to spread the following claim: Vosgerau considers the suggestion that “a sample letter could be developed before the coming elections to cast doubt on the legality of elections to be conceivable: the more people take part, he agrees, the higher the probability of success.” The court ruled that the lawyer had made it clear in his application that he was not in favor of mass action.
However, Vosgerau was unsuccessful in two other points.
On the one hand, this is the formulation: “But he doesn’t want to be able to remember the thing about the idea of expatriating citizens in Sellner’s lecture.”
And on the other hand, there was the claim that Vosgerau spoke about “concerns regarding young voters of Turkish origin who were unable to form an independent opinion” in connection with postal voting and subsequently confirmed this.
Vosgerau's lawyer accuses "Correctiv" of meaninglessly shortening quotes - the court sees it differently
Vosgerau's lawyer Carsten Brennecke wrote on the short message service
For example,
Correctiv
deliberately concealed the fact that the constitutional lawyer had said that the expulsion of German citizens was not legally possible.
And the “young voters of Turkish origin” only served as an example of the fact that it is worrying when certain people “feel exposed to pressure from third parties when casting postal votes.”
However, the Hamburg district court came to the conclusion that the research platform had summarized Vosgerau's answer to a query in a permissible manner.
(yes/dpa)