Images or videos in WhatsApp status can be prosecuted. This is now shown by a judgment in Frankfurt am Main. The court found a young man guilty of Nazi propaganda which he had displayed in his status.
Anyone who shares unconstitutional content in their WhatsApp status must expect criminal prosecution. This has now been underlined by judges from the district court in Frankfurt am Main with a judgment.
This relates to a case from 2019, when a young man uploaded a one-minute Nazi propaganda video to his status. According to court documents, it glorified Adolf Hitler, the Hitler salute and the swastika. Within 24 hours, people whose mobile phone number he had saved and who in turn listed him as a contact in the address book were able to watch the clip.
According to the district court, around 75 contacts actually watched the Nazi video. However, the number of potential viewers is not relevant to the verdict. The district court ruled that simply uploading and showing unconstitutional content in the WhatsApp status is a criminal offence. It doesn’t matter which way this happens. It is enough to show such content as a messenger service.
The accused was therefore found guilty of sedition. He was sentenced to a fine of 75 daily rates of 10 euros each.
The industry price for electricity in Germany is currently five times as high as it was a year ago. This is a problem for many companies. Now more and more entrepreneurs are sounding the alarm. Among them also Trigema veteran Wolfgang Grupp. He warns of a “big wave of layoffs”.
The former SPD member of the Bundestag Johannes Kahrs has been under investigation for months. Now investigators found his locker 200,000 euros. There is an initial suspicion of favoritism for tax evasion.
Taxpayers should be able to fully deduct their pension contributions from next year. According to calculations by the Ministry of Finance, the affected citizens will be relieved by around 3.2 billion euros in 2023. In 2024, it is therefore still about 1.76 billion euros.
