The State Secretary in the Berlin Senate Chancellery, Sawsan Chebli (SPD), has successfully acted against the use of her name and likeness for commercial purposes.
The operator of a web shop in North Rhine-Westphalia was asked to stop selling appropriate cups, beer mugs, T-shirts and other items, said Cheblis lawyer Christian Schertz on Wednesday of the German press agency. The man signed the statement.
The 46-year-old ex-cop, Youtuber and author, who has a criminal record and can be classified according to the right spectrum, is no stranger to Chebli. The politician has been taking legal action against him for months because he cursed her in a video as “SPD quota migrant” and “Islamic speaking puppet”.
The district court of Berlin-Tiergarten found that freedom of expression was covered and in January cleared the man of the charge of insult. Chebli went into revision.
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“We are dealing with a further quality of brutalization,” said her lawyer Schertz about the man’s merchandising products. It was a massive violation of the personal rights of his client and an illegal marketing.
Chebli (41) is State Secretary for Civic and International Affairs and has Palestinian roots. She always raises her voice against racism, hatred, intolerance and for an open society. That is why she is often insulted, especially via social networks. Some time ago, she made public a death threat by suspected right-wing extremists against herself. (Tsp / dpa)
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