Habeck sets a record: 805 criminal charges for insults!

Habeck sets a record: 805 criminal charges for insults!

In the glamorous world of politics, there are always actors who are particularly targeted by criminal charges. Robert Habeck, the Green Economic Minister, leads the field of the accused with a whopping 805 ads in the past three years. He leaves his colleagues far behind. The emphasis here is on insults that are often carried out on social media platforms. Habeck has made a name for himself as a hard opponent of online hatred. A prime example of this is the so-called "weak-head affair", in which the police visited a pensioner after an insulting post.

Annalena Baerbock, the Foreign Minister, follows him with a respectable 513 display. A distance that can hardly be overlooked is third: Marco Buschmann, the former FDP Justice Minister, advertise with lean 26. Remarkably, many ministers, including Lauterbach, Faeser and Lindner, do without criminal charges, despite regular hostility.

hidden dynamics and demands

The ranking of the criminal complaints from September 2021 to August 2024 shows a clear trend: the fire of law enforcement apparently rages the Greens the most. But while some exhaust the hardness of the laws, others remain silent. The allegation of an "display industry", especially on the part of the FDP Bremen, hovers threateningly over the scene. Marcel Schröder, a right-wing expert, puts his finger in a nutshell: The crime of politician insult could be abolished in order to stop an adequate persecution of supposed offenses.