Against biker gangs, drug trafficking rings, or Islamist terrorist groups, the Section 129 of the German criminal code. Lawyers call it the “Discovery clause”, because he suspected that someone forming a criminal Association with far-reaching Surveillance warrants.

Against an artist, he was used to in Germany and never – until last week, it was announced that Martin Zschächner, a Prosecutor in the Thuringian town of Gera, established in 16 months against the Swiss action artist Philipp Ruch because of it. Zschächner held the pursuit of Ruchs maintained even when his claim that his collective have monitored the racial AfD-politician Björn Höcke, for a long time as a Satire proved and, therefore, investigating other prosecution had closed its proceedings.

The “Jura-Nazi”

Zschächner noticed as a law student in Heidelberg as a Right. At the time, a fellow student who is now a judge, told the “Frankfurter Allgemeine”, this dressed consistently in the style of the 20s and 30s, and as the “Emperor’s faithful”. “We have been able to read the Spinner to be dismissed, stating that, Sütterlin, Wagner operas, whistling, moved through the gears and chewing tobacco chewing.” To endow such a man with state power, believe him, of course, for a risk. Other students called the exotics, even then, only the “Jura-Nazi”.

In Thuringia Zschächner emerged anyway, as soon as a Prosecutor, “the founder of the Right legal power”, such as Katja Kipping, the Head of the left party, complained. Against Left and anti-fascist activists, he is not identified with the greatest zeal, and the highest endurance (albeit with little success), proceedings against right-wing radicals, he took the first place, it followed only half-heartedly or turned at the first opportunity.

Auschwitz as a metaphor

The reasons read sometimes as surreal poetry. As the AfD-protesters to A U-Bahn called out their opponents from the left of the young Church (JG): “, a U-Bahn, we build – from the JG to Auschwitz”, wanted to Zschächner see no need to rush. Auschwitz was not a threat, but just a metaphor such as “Waterloo”. The racist statements of an AfD employee, “Afros” were “not as we”, but “primitive man” who “had been forced in the civilization”, he was “neither abusive nor malicious scornful making”. As a AfD-politician Kipping threatened to fry “on a stick”, and saw the Prosecutor in it, and not just “Duktus revolutionary rhetoric”, as the French national anthem, care.

even before the investigation against Ruch were known, was apparently a whole series of service supervision complaints, the Zschächner one-sidedness, bias and politically-motivated Act accused. This week, the proceedings against Ruch has been set officially, Zschächner was added to clarify the allegations against him. Now is also a display because of the diffraction. With political criminal cases, he is likely to get it to do so quickly.

(editing Tamedia)

Created: 10.04.2019, 21:33 Uhr