Tiny sentences, boobies, sports cars -- how can you not make fun of German tabloid Bild?
So, when Bild offers to give up their courtroom seat at the most important criminal trial in Germany to a Turkish newspaper, you know there is a story.
The story is about the allocation of seats for the press in the murder trial of neo-nazi woman Z., the only surviving actor of a three person killing gang known as the NSU.
They killed ten people, eight of them from the Turkish minority, in a series of killings dubbed "Doener murders". Botched investigations were the hallmark of the official response.
Police did not catch the trio. Two killed themselves, and the third turned herself in.
For the upcoming trial in the southern city of Munich, the court managed to allocate all media journalist seats without a single Turkish paper or TV station getting a seat.
First come, first served, says the court.
Really?, asked the press.
Insensitive, says the rest of the country.
When Bild offered to give up their seat to a big Turkish paper, things looked up.
But the court refuses to allow the change.
That is why we praise Bild today and wonder why the court insists that "rules are rules".
No, there is no reason to think they are malicious, they are just utterly thoughtless and insensitive.
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