Overview
- Cologne court conditionally discontinued the üble Nachrede case after Pocher agreed to donate €15,000 to the Child Protection Association, a children’s hospice, and Doctors Without Borders within three months.
- Proceedings stemmed from two 2020 ‘Bildschirmkontrolle’ videos in which Pocher alleged Anne Wünsche bought positive interactions, including about 96,000 heart reactions.
- Pocher accepted the court’s proposal in the hearing, saying “Please just end it,” as reported by multiple outlets.
- His defense said he had relied on an informant and had not sufficiently verified the claims before publishing them.
- Days earlier, Hamburg’s regional court issued an injunction forbidding him from repeating the allegations, threatening fines up to €250,000, while rejecting Wünsche’s damages claim; Wünsche later criticized the criminal-case outcome for lacking an apology or retraction.