Merz announced the termination of his submission of insults to the court.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on June 21 that after assuming the post of head of government, he would not go to court in cases of insults.

"During my tenure, I have not filed a single criminal complaint. I did it for a while, but then I stopped and I don't do it anymore," Die Zeit newspaper quoted him as saying.

According to the Chancellor, he does not respond to personal insults, including harsh statements addressed to himself, and considers himself "completely insensitive" to such statements.

At the same time, Merz noted that the limit of what is acceptable is where insults damage public positions and their authority.

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The Heilbronner Stimme newspaper reported on February 26 that the prosecutor's office of the German city of Heilbronn had stopped investigating the case of a local pensioner who called the German Chancellor Pinocchio in a comment on social networks. The agency recalled that the case against the man was initiated after his publication on the social network Facebook (owned by Meta, whose activities are recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation) with the headline "Pinocchio comes to Heilbronn," which was widely discussed by local media journalists.