‘Groping black hand’ picture sparks press freedom debate
by Jane WhyattTwo German newspapers are accused of racist and sexist imagery. One has apologised. It follows a large number sex assaults by Middle Eastern asylum-seekers on local women at Cologne station on New Year’s Eve. At least two journalists covering protest events against the asylum policy of German Government have been attacked within a week in Cologne and in Leipzig. This is the latest skirmish in the ongoing war of words, with anti-Muslim groups like Pegida attacking the media as ‘liars’, as revealed in ECPMF’s 2015 research www.ecpmf/news/ecpmf/pegida and www.ecpmf/news/ecpmf/Leipzig1212
Süddeutsche Zeitung and Focus two German newspapers are…
