Douglas Murray Douglas Murray

The Spectator took on Chancellor Merkel and President Erdogan – and won

Hurray!  It is not often one gets good news, but here is some.  Jan Boehmermann, the German comedian who read out a rude poem about Sultan Erdogan on German TV, has had the prosecution against him dropped.  In the last couple of hours prosecutors in Mainz said that they did not have ‘sufficient evidence’ against him.

Well I say ‘Ha’ to that, for it is purest face-saving. 

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