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El Hotzo Must because of his Trump side hits in court: The satirist Sebastian Hotz, better known as the artist name “El Hotzo”, must answer on July 23, 2025 before the District Court of Tiergarten in Berlin-this reports, among other things, “Spiegel.de“The background is social media posts in which he expressed derogatory in July 2024 after the attempted assassination attempt on the then US presidential candidate Donald Trump and made fun of the situation.
According to Hotz, the Berlin public prosecutor accuses Hotz’s reward and approval of crimes in accordance with Section 140 of the Criminal Code. This was confirmed by a court spokeswoman for several media. The Süddeutsche Zeitung had previously reported on the appointment.
El Hotzo: Trump jokes caused scandal
In the affected posts published on platform X (formerly Twitter), it said, among other things: “I find it absolutely fantastic when fascists die.” In another post, Hotz made a reference between Donald Trump and a “last bus”, which he “unfortunately narrowly missed”. The contributions were later deleted.
As a result of public criticism, the Bundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) ended the collaboration with Hotz at the broadcaster Fritz. A planned event with ARD Kultur was also canceled.
After a long break, Hotz released a new Trump joke on X. “How should you deal with Trump🤓” IDK we had a very concrete suggestion last summer, but it didn’t like you all. ” An allusion – again – on the shooter who wanted to bring in a “concrete proposal” with his use of firearms.
According to the court, a single day of negotiation has been planned so far.