Overview
- The Hamburg Regional Court issued a preliminary injunction against Axel Springer’s Bild, prohibiting republication of specified allegations about Kuntz as unsubstantiated suspicion reporting.
- The order threatens administrative fines for violations and covers multiple pages of passages the court identified as impermissible.
- Axel Springer said it will pursue legal remedies and has temporarily withdrawn the affected articles.
- The ruling is interim and does not decide whether any misconduct occurred, focusing instead on press-law standards and personality rights.
- HSV’s supervisory board previously described employee complaints as credible, while Kuntz denies the claims; prosecutors confirmed his counsel filed a December complaint that was withdrawn in early January.