{"id":522424,"date":"2025-10-23T14:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/522424\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T14:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:55:13","slug":"german-police-search-journalists-home-over-social-media-post-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/522424\/","title":{"rendered":"German police search journalist\u2019s home over social media post \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police in Berlin on Thursday searched the home of prominent conservative political commentator and former university professor Norbert Bolz over a social media post he wrote in 2024 that contained a Nazi-era slogan.<\/p>\n

On Thursday morning, officers arrived at Bolz\u2019s home and questioned him about\u00a0a post<\/a>\u00a0on X that featured the Nazi-affiliated expression, \u201cDeutschland erwache!\u201d (\u201cGermany, awake!\u201d). Bolz confirmed his authorship of the post, avoiding the seizure of his laptop, he told POLITICO.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe friendly police officers gave me the good advice to be more careful in the future. I\u2019ll do that and only talk about trees from now on,\u201d Bolz sarcastically commented in a separate post<\/a> on X. Bolz is a regular commentator for WELT, a sister publication of POLITICO\u00a0in the Axel Springer Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Berlin on Thursday searched the home of prominent conservative political commentator and former university professor Norbert…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,26386,1824,26384,601,2003,2452,14791,48,811,182,15,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-522424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-extremism","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-hate-crime","13":"tag-jd-vance","14":"tag-law-enforcement","15":"tag-media","16":"tag-munich-security-conference","17":"tag-rights","18":"tag-security","19":"tag-social-media","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115424062711905818","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}