Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court: "FCK CPS" must not be punishable



Polizisten fühlen sich durch Anstecker mit der Aufschrift "Fck Cps" beleidigt


A woman from Lower Saxony received a display for insult: she wanted a T-shirt, a button badge with the inscription "FCK CPS" account. Police officers had felt vilified and first right. The Federal Constitutional Court annulled the judgment now.

Most people should do joga, if you read the letters "FCK CPS" on Ansteckern. That the as an abbreviation for "Fuck Cops" applies, is obvious, but not necessarily well known. However police officers feel personally attacked by the parable. This can "FCK CPS" be covered on the fundamental right of freedom of expression. The has now decided by the Federal Constitutional Court.

The woman from Lower Saxony had a T-shirt with the words and so was taken by the police has been reprimanded. As the officials again you got, this time with a badge, it has a display because of insult. A judge sentenced her to 15 hours voluntary work.

This was inadmissible in the freedom of expression of the woman intervened, the judges ruled. The imprint will bring only the general rejection of the police force, and handed the state to express his lust. The police, the young people encountered with the badge, could therefore not individually at the parable relate.

It was mostly not in such allegations go to individual characteristics of the members, but the evaluation of a collective, the judge emphasized. However, he said a criminal offense for a rather "personalisierenden Assignment", which was not shown here. The local court must now again decide on the case.