Man, the Germans need to learn how to take a joke.
Whenever I have been in Germany, many ppl seem so serious and uptight,
which I why I like the neighboring countries like Holland & Denmark a lot better. Chill people, it's called satire!
check it:
The lawsuits accuse the German distributors of the film, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Germany, of violating strict post-war German defamation laws. The laws, enacted in the wake of Nazi atrocities against Jews, gypsies and other minorities, make it a criminal offence to disseminate anti-Semitic and racist views.
Representing gypsy interests, the Hamburg-based European Centre for Antiziganism Research filed one of the lawsuits. The other was filed by an anonymous person, according to authorities in Hamburg.
Both lawsuits accuse British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen of disseminating hate propaganda.
'We are accusing him of defamation and inciting violence against Sinti and Roma,' said Marko D Knudsen, chairman of the Antiziganism centre, which takes its name from the term for hostility towards gypsies.
Full story:
http://www.expatica.com/actual/artic...story_id=34126
Whenever I have been in Germany, many ppl seem so serious and uptight,
which I why I like the neighboring countries like Holland & Denmark a lot better. Chill people, it's called satire!
check it:
The lawsuits accuse the German distributors of the film, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Germany, of violating strict post-war German defamation laws. The laws, enacted in the wake of Nazi atrocities against Jews, gypsies and other minorities, make it a criminal offence to disseminate anti-Semitic and racist views.
Representing gypsy interests, the Hamburg-based European Centre for Antiziganism Research filed one of the lawsuits. The other was filed by an anonymous person, according to authorities in Hamburg.
Both lawsuits accuse British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen of disseminating hate propaganda.
'We are accusing him of defamation and inciting violence against Sinti and Roma,' said Marko D Knudsen, chairman of the Antiziganism centre, which takes its name from the term for hostility towards gypsies.
Full story:
http://www.expatica.com/actual/artic...story_id=34126
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