Sebastian Edathy, the disgraced, former Social-Democratic (SPD) MP who admitted to downloading pornographic images and videos of children, will likely be kicked out of his party.
The Child Protection Federation of Lower Saxony has rejected the €5,000 which ex-MP Sebastian Edathy was ordered to pay them for illegally downloading child pornography, saying they didn't want to endorse his escape from punishment.
A court has decided to fine former MP Sebastian Edathy €5,000 after he admitted on Monday to downloading child pornography images and video onto his official parliamentary laptop.
A former rising star of German politics who resigned after pictures of naked children were allegedly found on his official laptop said Thursday what he did was "wrong, but legal."
A German lawmaker who resigned early this year will stand trial for allegedly downloading child pornography onto his
parliamentary work computer, a court said on Tuesday.
The Constitutional Court on Friday rejected an attempt by former Social Democratic (SPD) MP Sebastian Edathy to have evidence against him thrown out in his trial for possession of child pornography.
The politician at the centre of a scandal which has shaken Germany’s coalition government broke his silence on Monday, accusing prosecutors of leaking confidential information about him to the press.
UPDATE: State prosecutors launched a preliminary investigation on Tuesday into whether a former minister broke the law when he disclosed details of an ongoing child porn investigations into a politician.
UPDATE: Buying and selling photos of naked children in Germany should be banned the Association for the Protection of Children demanded on Tuesday, in the wake of a child porn scandal. But a leading politician said it would be tricky to do.
The fallout of a child porn scandal which has led to the resignation of one minister and an MP has led to a “crisis” in relations within Germany’s coalition government.
UPDATE: The first minister of Germany's new cabinet resigned on Friday. Hans-Peter Friedrich came under fire when it emerged he passed on information to a party chief about an MP suspected of possessing naked photos of children.
Social Democrat leaders knew for months that one of their leading politicians allegedly possessed inappropriate images of children, it emerged on Thursday.
