I think it’s fairly common to have some degree of anti-insult laws. However, “bastard” is a pretty mild insult and there’s additional context.
In Germany, there’s Beamtenbeleidigung i.e. insult of a representative of state, like police. But that wouldn’t apply to Meloni as head of state anyway, afaik, it only applies to career officials rather than elected officials.
In Germany, there’s Beamtenbeleidigung i.e. insult of a representative of state, like police.
“Beamtenbeleidigung” does actually not exist in Germany, that’s a misconception. It’s just as illegal insulting a police officer as it is insulting almost anybody else.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamtenbeleidigung
It’s probably just more common for officials to take enough offense to actually file a report.
Plus “Beamtenbeleidung” is such a common misconcpetion, that officials probably believe it actually is a real thing.
It’s a pretty common law worldwide that you can’t ouright insult people.
Is it?
I think it’s fairly common to have some degree of anti-insult laws. However, “bastard” is a pretty mild insult and there’s additional context.
In Germany, there’s Beamtenbeleidigung i.e. insult of a representative of state, like police. But that wouldn’t apply to Meloni as head of state anyway, afaik, it only applies to career officials rather than elected officials.
“Beamtenbeleidigung” does actually not exist in Germany, that’s a misconception. It’s just as illegal insulting a police officer as it is insulting almost anybody else. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamtenbeleidigung
TIL! Thanks.
So prosecutors just treat cases of insulted officials differently than when someone from the hoi polloi is being insulted!?
It’s probably just more common for officials to take enough offense to actually file a report.
Plus “Beamtenbeleidung” is such a common misconcpetion, that officials probably believe it actually is a real thing.