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The author of the article accused Hape Kerkeling of portraying his grandfather in a speech in the Thuringian state parliament as a victim of National Socialism and of dramatically equating his imprisonment in Buchenwald with that of persecuted Jews. According to the author, Kerkeling concealed the reasons for his grandfather's imprisonment, Hermann Anton Kerkeling. According to the article, Hermann Anton Kerkeling was sentenced to eight years in a correctional facility in October 1933 for 17 counts of livestock and property theft during the economic crisis. Shortly thereafter, an additional year was added for preparation for high treason, among other things in connection with the communist pamphlet Rote Welle. He served his sentence in Münster, Papenburg, and Bremen. After that, the Gestapo ordered protective custody in Münster in May 1942. On July 2, 1942, Kerkeling was brought to Buchenwald as a political prisoner with the number 6117. He worked in the effects chamber and remained in Nazi custody until the liberation of the camp on April 11, 1945 – a total of about twelve years. He died in Recklinghausen in 1993 at the age of 91. The author described him as an active communist and gang thief, not as a typical victim of National Socialism. #Geschichte #Nationalsozialismus #Erinnerung (translated)

Justice Minister Anna Sporrer warns of a looming overload of prisons in Austria and announces measures such as expanded electronic house arrest and community service to ensure the rehabilitation of inmates and counteract a possible "humane penal enforcement." #Justizreform #Strafvollzug #Hausarrest (translated)

Yvonne Kussmann wrote that there are still no traces of Muhamad M., who escaped from the secure psychiatric facility Altscherbitz in Saxony on September 25, 2026. According to a report by FOCUS from the previous day, the 22-year-old Afghan used his first approved accompanied outing in the unsecured clinic area to escape. The only caregiver who accompanied him could not hold him back, Kussmann wrote. She asked the clinic if there was a directive to respond exclusively verbally in the event of an escape and not to use direct force. As a comparison, she referred to Ahmad N., who, according to her account, escaped from the secure facility in Wiesloch during a similar outing on September 8, 2023. Caregivers had followed him to the later crime scene; there he fatally stabbed the 30-year-old cashier Lisa with a knife he had previously stolen in a TEDI store. Kussmann also requested explanations regarding an assessment expressed by the clinic, according to FOCUS, that no further crimes were to be expected due to long-term medication for several weeks. She asked among other things when the medication had started and how long Muhamad M. had been stable before his escape. He had been accommodated since October 2025; on June 30, 2026, the regional court in Leipzig ordered his permanent accommodation. At the time of the judgment, further crimes were anticipated, and according to Kussmann, there was also a lack of insight into his illness and willingness to undergo treatment. The clinic rejected both questions, citing safety aspects, patient protection, and medical confidentiality. They also emphasized that those accommodated were clinic patients with a statutory entitlement to treatment and not inmates of a correctional facility. The medical management has its own assessment and discretion in therapeutic measures. Kussmann wrote that she forwarded her inquiry to the responsible ministry and shared the search alert again. In the meantime, another photo has been published. https://t.co/rNiWoDmLNM #Flucht #Sachsen #Gesundheitssystem (translated)

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Felix Perrefort referred to Prince Reuß as a "political prisoner" and emphasized the issue of proportionality in pretrial detention. Whether the defendants have committed a criminal offense should be separated from this and must be decided by the courts based on the evidence; it is hardly possible to make a final judgment from the outside, he wrote. In his view, however, the duration of detention can be assessed. Pretrial detention must not be a penalty in advance, and milder measures such as electronic ankle bracelets, surrendering identification documents and passports, or reporting requirements are available. Such conditions are already being applied in the Stuttgart proceedings. The hearings could nevertheless continue two days a week until a verdict in 2027 or 2028, Perrefort said. The older defendants, particularly the 74-year-old Reuß, could then determine their own diet and medical care, according to him. Reuß's daughter Elena, who has Down syndrome, has reportedly hardly spoken since her father's arrest according to medical confirmation; she could see him regularly again under milder detention conditions, Perrefort wrote. The fact that such measures are not being implemented could raise suspicions among citizens that a political example is being made, he explained. Those who instead invoke the danger invoked by Nancy Faeser in 2022 to justify the continued pretrial detention reveal a lot about themselves from his perspective. #Verhältnismäßigkeit #Rechtsstaat #PolitischeHäftlinge (translated)

Israel's far-right Minister of Public Security Itamar Ben-Gvir has been fined for threatening a Palestinian prisoner with death in a video, with the election commission classifying the video as campaign propaganda and determining that public funds were used for its production. #BenGvir #Menschenrechte #Palästinenser (translated)