Overview
- Berlin’s regional court ruled for AfD lawmaker Gerrit Huy, ordering Correctiv to stop publishing three statements from its 2024 report on the November 2023 Potsdam meeting.
- The prohibitions include calling the event a “master plan to expel German citizens,” a line about jurist Ulrich Vosgerau’s memory of an “expatriation idea,” and a claim that Huy proposed stripping dual nationals of German citizenship.
- The press chamber announced only the judgment’s tenor without written reasoning, and the decision is not final.
- Correctiv’s editor-in-chief said the outlet will appeal and argued the factual core of its investigation stands, while Huy’s lawyer contended the disputed passages are factual assertions.
- Earlier suits by organizer Gernot Mörig and jurist Ulrich Vosgerau were dismissed by the Hamburg court in December 2025 and are on appeal, leaving conflicting rulings in a dispute that followed nationwide protests sparked by Correctiv’s report.