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Raided Over a Tweet: Munich Prosecutors Target AfD Lawmaker for Digital “Incitement”

Statement regarding the house search: I will take action against this political witch hunt.

The boundary between digital satire and criminal conduct has become the focal point of a major legal dispute in Munich, as authorities conducted a morning raid on the home and parliamentary office of Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) lawmaker René Dierkes.


Evidently it is about a tweet made two years ago by an individual no longer employed by the politician.

I learned a cool new word. Hexenjagd = witch hunt. 

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