Germany Turkey: Police protection for satirist Boehmermann over Erdogan poem

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Last edited Tue Apr 12, 2016, 04:02 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: BBC

A German TV comic, Jan Boehmermann, has been placed under police protection after he read an obscene poem about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

A police spokesperson said a patrol car had been parked in front of his house.

Mr Erdogan has filed a criminal complaint against the satirist in a case that has prompted a debate in Germany over freedom of speech.

German prosecutors are investigating whether he broke a law against insulting foreign leaders.

Public broadcaster ZDF announced earlier on Tuesday that his weekly satire programme would not go ahead this week because of the "vast amount of media reporting and the resulting focus on the programme and its presenter".

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36023440

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12 April 2016 Europe

EDIT: Story updated at link.

[GummyBearz]

1. Sigh...

I guess the saying "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me" isn't a thing over there... I learned that when I was about 6 years old

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

2. Not only that, it was satire.

[Jack Rabbit]

3. I'm so glad we don't have laws like Germany's against insuilting foreign leaders

Angela Merkel is ugly as well as being the European banksters' moll.

Erdogan is merely a fucking idiot.