Conversations within the family, for example, in Whatsapp family groups, to be especially protected, according to a court. There you can speak freely, and sometimes offend, without the need for criminal persecution. A man had tried to let his mother-in-law, to prohibit, to send a “Protocol abuse”, which he was supposedly guilty of. the
anyone Who insults his family members on Whatsapp, need to fear no legal consequences. The higher regional court (OLG) of Frankfurt am Main ruled on Wednesday, rejecting the complaint of a man who had sued his mother-in-law to cease and desist. (Az. 16 W 54/18, press release of the court here)
The man demanded from court to forbid his mother-in-law, numerous statements about him. Background of the lawsuit is a dispute of a man with his wife in the year 2016. According to his own statement, the man had taken his son in this connection at the neck or the neck and from behind pushed so that it goes faster out of the room, explained the court. This incident, filmed the wife and the Video of her mother.
I have listed The mother-in-law of the man have posted a “Protocol on abuse,” in which you have a number of behavior of the man. Along with the Video you sent to the list, according to the information about Whatsapp to family members. At the same time, the mother-in-law criminal filed a complaint against the man for child abuse and showed the Video to police officers as well as employees of the youth welfare office.
contrary to numerous statements of the “Protocol” of him wanted to approach the man in court. The district court and then in the second instance the higher regional court rejected his complaint. Conversations within the family are particularly protected in this personal space of each could speak without legal consequences with the Relatives. Within the closest family circle, “honor was free space”.
As the mother-in-law messages have a close and good contact to the recipients of your Whatsapp, you have the law, the plaintiffs say, was the court of appeal. A claim for injunctive relief against criminal police and the youth welfare office does not exist already.
