facepalm of the day

[Rudeboyelvis]

WTF??!!

BERLIN — The German government on Friday granted a Turkish request to allow the possible prosecution of a German TV comedian who wrote a crude poem about Turkey’s president, an awkward decision for Chancellor Angela Merkel as she seeks Ankara’s help in reducing Europe’s migrant influx.

Turkey demanded last week to have comedian Jan Boehmermann prosecuted for insulting a foreign head of state. German law required Merkel’s government to grant permission before prosecutors could consider whether to press charges.

Merkel stressed that it “means neither a prejudgment of the person affected nor a decision about the limits of freedom of art, the press and opinion.”

Merkel is now sending one of her own citizens to face prosecution in a foreign country for telling a joke??!!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/enter...4dc_story.html