Early-morning police raid at German University Professor’s home

Armed police raided his home because he wrote an illegal sentence on X

Berliner Zeitung reports an early-morning raid by armed police on the home of German University Professor Dr. Norbert Bolz.

He is accused of writing the illegal sentence „Germany awaken“ on the social media platform X as response to an almost identically titled article by the far-leftist newspaper taz.

Among other sentences like „Everything for Germany“, writing or saying „Germany awaken“ is punishable by up to 3 years in prison in Germany.

The sentence becomes legal, however, if „Germany“ is replaced by any other country.

A Syrian, for example, can yell „Everything for Syria“ and an Afghan can shout „Afghanistan awaken“ without any legal repercussions in Germany.