Wednesday, 12.05.2021
The case itself is likely to be well known: on 19 August 2019, the Hamburg Public Prosecutor’s Office launched a criminal investigation into former professional footballer and international player Christoph Metzelder on suspicion of distributing child pornography. Ever since a search warrant was executed on 3 September 2019, at the very latest, this case has been the subject of extensive coverage in (almost) all media. Sometimes factual, sometimes rather sensationalist, but always with reference to the presumption of innocence.
Read the full text here: The ‘Metzelder case’ – a scandalously lenient sentence or simply the application of the law?