Of the mirrors has an article about ex-image-Editor-in-chief Julian Reichelt with the title “Birds, Promotes, Fires” taken from the network in March. The move was made after a decision by the Hamburg Regional Court. There was already an injunction in May has been issued. Of the mirrors nevertheless continued to disseminate the text digitally in a supplemented form. The text already dealt with abuse of power against Reichelt, which was released in October, six months after the report, more precisely: It was about the background of the compliance procedure, after which Reichelt remained in office for the time being.
The core of the legal dispute over the text is the question of whether Julian Reichelt from mirrors got ample opportunity to comment. Of the mirrors thinks: yes. Reichelt, on the other hand, had affirmed that, as it was called by the Hamburg Regional Court at the time, “at image or Axel Springer to have found out “request submitted and not addressed to him” only in the course of the legal dispute.
Julian Reichelt before his release.
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Of the mirrors had argued after the first judgment in May that it did not follow from the decision that the magazine’s suspicion reporting was fundamentally inadmissible. The publisher decided to leave the text online in order to add comments from the legal proceedings. In a note below the text, the informed mirrors in addition, that Reichelt assures that the questions of mirrors not having received; an offer from mirrors from March to add a statement, he had not accepted, it also said there. “The point cited by the regional court as a reason for inadmissibility” was omitted due to this addition.
The court saw it differently now. The board stated that the “added passages in terms of evaluation” did not make any relevant difference to the reporting that was prohibited by the injunction mirrors with. The magazine wants to keep fighting for the text: The magazine has lodged an immediate complaint with the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court against the new decision of November 15, which also imposed a fine of 2000 euros, according to a spokeswoman.