Germany: German Press Council deals with coverage of refugee crisis and footage of murder in front of the recording camera
Tobias Raab
On the 2nd of December 2015, the German Press Council had to deal with complaints about the coverage of the refugee crisis in German media. Nineteen of these complaints were addressed against several newspapers who had shown pictures of a drowned boy in their print and online articles, whose dead body had been found at a beach in Bodrum (Turkey).
The Council found all of the complaints to be unfounded as the pictures had not been inadequately sensational or degrading and showed a document of contemporary history. The 4-year-old boy drowned fleeing over the Mediterranean Sea together with his…