On September 21, 2026, the Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe handed down its ruling in our court case: Our lawsuit against Timm Opitz, the person responsible for “perspektive” under press law, was upheld in its entirety. The court prohibited him from repeating his defamatory claim that our publishing house “regularly publishes anti-Semitic books.” If he violates the ruling, Opitz faces a fine of up to 250,000 euros or up to two years in prison. Furthermore, Opitz must bear the legal costs.

A victory across the board!

A brief recap: In 2024, an article appeared on the website of “perspektive”, a German NGO close to Soros, in which Ahriman Verlag was defamed for allegedly “regularly publishing anti-Semitic books”. No lie could be more outrageous, since Ahriman is the German publisher (aside from denominational publishers) with the highest proportion of Jewish authors. At the same time, numerous anti-fascist resistance fighters have found a publishing home here, such as Bernard Goldstein, the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, whose memoirs – published by Ahriman – featured a foreword by the famous journalist and Nazi hunter Beate Klarsfeld (who had publicly slapped the German Chancellor and former Nazi Kiesinger in 1968). Since the founding of our publishing house more than 40 years ago, our entire publishing program has been unwaveringly committed to the tradition of European Enlightenment whose foremost goal was the establishment and defense of freedom of speech and religion – in particular, the emancipation of the Jews. We also owed it to the honor of our authors and staff to take action against the obscene and utterly offensive “perspektive” lie, which was obviously designed to substantially harm our publishing house and ultimately destroy it with the damning label of “anti-Semitic.”

A year ago, in September 2025, at first instance the Freiburg Regional Court dismissed our lawsuit on the grounds that the “perspektive” lie was simply a matter of “freedom of expression” and did not even require any “factual basis” – a shameful ruling that completely contradicted decades of legal precedent and gave the defamers carte blanche to, in the name of so-called “freedom of expression,” actually work to destroy freedom of expression by silencing opposition figures stigmatized in this way. But: Lies and defamation are not opinions and are therefore not protected by the German Constitution (just a little as incitement to violence or criminal acts)! We had, of course, filed an appeal against this ruling.

The Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe has now overturned the shameful ruling of the Freiburg Regional Court

The Higher Regional Court had already stated during the hearing that, first, the publisher’s corporate right of personality is severely damaged by the accusation of “anti-Semitism”, particularly against the backdrop of German history, and that, second such a serious accusation must naturally be based on factual grounds. And the court found no such basis! According to the presiding judge, “perspektive” had either “conducted poor research” or simply made up its slanderous assertion. In the hearing, our attorney, the renowned Munich media lawyer Michael von Sprenger, had clearly set out again that “perspektive” had been unable to present the slightest proof for its defamation. Our publisher’s representative emphasized that the criticism of George Soros expressed in Ahriman publications naturally has nothing to do with his coincidentally Jewish descent, and summed it up with the words: “Anti-imperialism is not anti-Semitism!” She concluded: “Over the past two years of the trial, the defendant has failed to find a single anti-Semitic statement in the more than 20,000 printed pages of the publishing program, for the simple reason that there aren’t any!”

The verdict of the Higher Regional Court fully upholds our lawsuit against the defamers. It is also a victory against the now-rampant “N”GO swamp in Germany.

A long and costly battle for a matter of course under the rule of law! – We thank all our supporters!

During the past two years, the streamlined German media reported not a single line about the trial. Nevertheless, through great effort we succeeded in drawing public attention to our landmark case, and that was presumably decisive for the outcome of the trial, even though there are undoubtedly – as in this case – judges who are committed to law and justice.

We thank our supporters who helped achieve this verdict, especially our author Dr. Efraim Zuroff, the long-time director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, whose voice naturally carried particular weight in this case and who immediately protested against our defamation by a letter to the court. Prompt protests also came from France, including from Paris-based attorney Linda Weil-Curiel, who comes from a Jewish family and was awarded the Human Rights Prize of the French Republic for her fight against female genital mutilation. From the U.S., the well-known book author Steve Pomper protested, and Dr. George Weinberg, chairman of the American “Republicans Overseas Germany”, addressed the court with two letters of protest. Numerous letters of support also reached the court from England, Austria, and, of course, all over Germany. Once again, many trial observers and supporters traveled from far away to attend the hearing at the Higher Regional Court. Thankfully, also several independent German and Austrian online outlets broke the silence of the mainstream media by reporting on the case in detail.

However, this victory in a single court case – what perseverance, what an investment of time and money was needed to achieve it! – should not give rise to any illusions about the political situation in today’s Germany. Even on the international stage, Germany has meanwhile become notorious for suppressing free speech and systematically denigrating and oppressing the political opposition – conditions justly condemned last year by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio as “tyranny in disguise”.

Nonetheless, this ruling is a small success in the fight against the rapid destruction of fundamental civil rights in our country!

 On September 8, 2026, the appeal hearing finally took place before the Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe, after the Freiburg District Court had dismissed AHRIMAN Publishing House’s lawsuit against “perspektive” a year earlier, thereby granting those despicable slanderers a carte blanche to spread their outrageous lie that AHRIMAN, the publishing house with the highest proportion of Jewish authors, “regularly publishes anti-Semitic books.”
The hearing was scheduled for 2:00 p.m., and already an hour beforehand, a large crowd had gathered in front of the courthouse; as could be inferred from their conversations, those attending the trial had traveled from all over Germany to show their support for AHRIMAN Publishing House. A handful of recognizable “perspektive” supporters, looking remarkably shabby, were also hanging around, but showed no interest in entering the courtroom – obviously, that was all they could mobilize, and what a bunch of characters! There was no sign of their “information booth” – which had been announced beforehand on the “perspektive” website (and was certainly not authorized – we had informed the court of this the day before and expressed our interest in ensuring the proceedings went smoothly. Police patrols were therefore present as needed, and heightened security checks had already been announced in advance. Every visitor was thoroughly searched at the entrance, and their bags were thoroughly checked, which took a long time due to the large number of visitors, so that the start of the trial was delayed by about half an hour; despite additional seating – there were about 50 trial observers in the courtroom in total – quite a few interested people had to stay outside.
The presiding judge then presented the facts of the case clearly and accurately – a marked contrast to the previous proceedings at the District Court, which, in its disgraceful ruling, had ultimately claimed that the “perspektive” lies were simply a matter of “freedom of expression” and did not even require any “factual basis” – an outrage that also completely contradicts established legal practice. In contrast, the Higher Regional Court judge now aptly explained that, first, the publisher’s corporate right of personality is severely violated by the accusation of “antisemitism,” particularly against the backdrop of German history; for example, authors – especially Jewish ones – would then no longer publish with the publisher, and second, that such an assertion must, of course, be based on factual grounds. And the court was unable to find such facts. For the one-time use of the word “Judas” – notably as an unambiguous metaphor for “traitor” – in a footnote of a book several hundred pages long, and the mention of the name Soros in another, do not imply “antisemitism” and certainly do not justify the claim that the publishing house, which features a very high proportion of Jewish authors in particular and, by its own definition, is committed to the Enlightenment, publishes “regularly anti-Semitic books” – according to the judge, the defendant had either “conducted poor research” or simply made an unfounded claim.
For his part, our attorney once again pointed out the complete untenability of the defamatory statements, and our publishing house representative emphasized that the criticism of George Soros in the AHRIMAN writings naturally has nothing to do with his coincidentally Jewish religion, summing it up with the pithy phrase: “Anti-imperialism is not antisemitism!”
The opposing attorney and his client Opitz, who had appeared this time, were visibly surprised that they were not facing a court that was biased in their favour. Their initial, constant smirk gradually froze into a stiff expression. What they then went on to say – dragging out the proceedings and speaking at great length – came across as rather helpless and often confused. According to their argument, the “Ketzerbriefe” (Heretics’ Letters, a magazine) were supposed to be books, and Soros was, after all, mentioned there quite often (which is true, but even there exclusively in an anti-imperialist context – a fact any reader would immediately confirm). In this context, opposing attorney Forst had the cheek – obviously relying on intimidation – to draw the court’s attention to the current spy agency brochure on “anti-Semitic codes” (we have already commented extensively on this piece of trash – press release from June 2026).
At some point, the presiding judge and the associate judges appeared (with restraint) annoyed by these insubstantial arguments, which were intended to ramble on about a “right” to incitement and defamation. And before a recess, our representative then took the floor once more, briefly and to the point: “In the past two years of this proceeding, the defendant has failed to find a single antisemitic tatement among the more than 20,000 printed pages of the publisher’s programme (not counting the 258 issues of the magazine “Ketzerbriefe” [Heretics’ Letters]), for the simple reason that there aren’t any!” And what constitutes antisemitism cannot by any means – as claimed by the defendant – be said to be hard to define or somehow very difficult to distinguish, or even simply “difficult”; rather, it is clearly defined as an irrational prejudice against Jews by birth. For example, the Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe (June 23, 2021, Case No. 6 U 190/20) states that an anti-Semite is someone who “has something against Jews simply because they are Jews,” or, in other words, “harbours a negative attitude toward Jews solely on the basis of their Jewish faith.” “The claim made by “perspektive” is therefore nothing more than defamation.”
In response to a settlement proposal from the court – which it is always required to make – defense attorney Forst, after a pause, managed to cobble together a completely convoluted and confusing cease-and-desist clause, to which our attorney concluded by stating, in a dismissive tone, that it was entirely incomprehensible (no one in the courtroom had understood it) and therefore, of course, did nothing to address the danger of a repeat offence. The court should therefore render its verdict.
The verdict is now scheduled to be announced on September 21, 2026. We will see whether the verdict reflects the course of the proceedings and whether the defamer is convicted in accordance with our complaint.

 With a new guidance titled “Hidden messages – anti-Semitic codes and ciphers”, Germany’s political spy agency drastically expands its infamous campaign to ostracize oppositional organizations, publications or personalities by labeling them “anti-Semitic”. The eighty-pages paper published in May by the “Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution” (BfV) brands a wide range of critical statements or current political terms which have nothing to do with Jews or Judaism whatsoever as containing a secret message (“code”) of anti-Semitism. What looks like a delusional construction, is however a powerful tool to censor and silence oppositional voices: Being groundlessly labeled “anti-Semitic” in today’s Germany is the worst vituperation a party, personality or also publisher can suffer and is tantamount to being banished from public life.

‘Tyranny in disguise’: Germany’s domestic spy agency as chief censor and supreme arbiter of political life
Germany is perhaps the only country in the Western hemisphere that officially allows its domestic spy agency to observe opposition parties, popular movements, dissident personalities or critical statements or publications and to pin disparaging labels on them like “extremist”, “enemy of the constitution” or “anti-Semitic” which, taken up by the big media, can threaten their very existence. Only a year ago, the federal spy agency met with sharp international protests when it classified Germany’s only true opposition party, the AfD, as “right-wing extremist”, thereby allowing for increased state surveillance of the party including the use of undercover agents and the tapping of party communications – a move rightly condemned by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio as “tyranny in disguise”.
Two years ago, in July 2024, the German interior minister to whom this spy agency directly reports banned Germany’s only high-circulation oppositional magazine, the monthly Compact, on the pretext that the agency’s surveillance of the magazine had unearthed anti-Semitic and xenophobic editorial content. The magazine’s premises were raided by the police and all its assets confiscated. After a year of legal battle, this first ban of a German newspaper 1since Hitler’s dictatorship was annulled by the Federal Administrative Court on grounds of “insufficient findings” in this specific case, but since then the interior minister’s power to ban a newspaper on the basis of his spy agency’s findings has been in principle acknowledged by the judiciary – a death-blow to the Constitution’s guarantee: “There shall be no censorship”.
In addition, it strikes a note of obscenity that the Orwellian name “Office for the Protection of the Constitution” has been given to a sprawling state apparatus spying on its own population – provided with a 500 million Euro annual budget and some 4,500 employees, without even counting the budgets and staff of 16 analogous spy agencies in each of the German Länder – that had been rebuilt in the 1950s almost entirely by reemploying Hitler’s Gestapo agents!

From a critical word on Soros or Gates to broadly used metaphors: everything can be branded as ‘anti-Semitism’
According to the new report (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz: Versteckte Botschaften – Antisemitische Codes und Chiffren [May 2026]), to point at the political role of George Soros is anti-Semitism. The report states: “The character of George Soros personifies abstract concepts like ‘high finance’, ‘globalists’ and ‘cosmopolites’. This serves the anti-Semitic narrative of a ‘string puller’ acting in obscurity who steers the global destinies” (p. 51). The same applies if one points to the political role of Bill Gates or Klaus Schwab: “These persons serve as a cipher for anti-Semitic stereotypes since independently of their real origins (…) negative supposedly ‘Jewish behaviour patterns’ are ascribed to them” (p. 39). Or to the role of the Rockefellers: “For codifying anti-Semitism, personifications are important. (…) In this context, names like (…) also Rockefeller have a long tradition as anti-Semitic ciphers” (p. 71). But one can also be labeled an anti-Semite if one uses the term “Wall Street”: “Whereas the term actually describes the finance district of New York, it is used in anti-Semitic circles as a synonym for a ‘rootless’ international ‘Jewish plutocracy’” (p. 31). Or the term “East Coast”: “This term is a geographic reference to the finance center New York allegedly controlled by Jews or to Jews in general” (p. 31).
According to Germany’s spy agency, also broadly used metaphors or graphic elements like a marionette, an octopus or even a picture of the human eye can be “anti-Semitic codes”. The report states: “Via codes like (…) the metaphor of the marionette player a symbolic language is established (…) In the end, this representation can be the breeding ground for aggressive assaults on the represented persons or the group of Jews symbolized by them” (p. 40). And on the octopus: “This is a classical anti-Semitic theme” (p. 51). On the eye: “The examples in this chapter mix up age-old enemy images with modern paranoia in order to sketch the distorted picture of a overpowering ‘Jewish danger’. The eye which is often used in this context serves as a symbol for ‘secret power’ or total surveillance” (p. 48). In its index, the report lists not less than eighty names or common terms or symbols that can allegedly serve as “anti-Semitic codes”, including also “Big Pharma”, “BlackRock”, “elite”, “European Central Bank”, “Great Reset”, “Larry Fink”, “big capitalists”, or “World Economic Forum”!

NGOs like the Amadeu Antonio Foundation act as the spy agency’s willing accomplices
The German government yearly spends millions of tax money to finance so-called “non-governemental” organizations which push ahead its harassing of the opposition, especially by orchestrating smear campaigns against the AfD. One of the biggest of these propaganda organizations is the Amadeu Antonio Foundation which is mainly financed by the German government (but also the Soros foundation) and closely cooperates with its political spy agency – one of the agency’s provincial directors even sits on the foundation’s board. Last year alone the Amadeu Antonio Foundation received more than three hundred thousand Euros from the government only for its “information on anti-Semitism”. In truth, this “information” only consists of vilifying the AfD and other oppositional groups as “anti-Semitic”, following the patterns set out by the spy agency as in its latest report. Presented as “independent” sources, the propaganda of these “N”GOs is then taken up by the big media and in an endless loop hammered into the heads of the population.

Barely a coincidence: The report comes at a critical juncture of a pending test court case scrutinizing the arbitrary construct of ‘anti-Semitic codes’
In this case pending before the Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe, the German publishing house Ahriman defends itself against the lie that it “regularly publishes anti-Semitic books” spread by the German news platform perspektive. Ahriman has the highest proportion of Jewish authors of any (non-denominational) publishing house in Germany and is known for its publication of the memoirs of resistance fighters such as Bernard Goldstein, a leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, or Leopold Trepper, the head of a famous anti-Nazi intelligence organization. Unable to present the slightest proof for its defamatory lie, in these proceedings perspektive has instead entirely relied on materials from the Amadeu Antonio Foundation on alleged ‘anti-Semitic codes’. The case is a graphic example of how via this construct everybody, even a staunchly philo-Semitic publisher (this is how Ahriman was characterized by the director of the Jerusalem-based Simon Wiesenthal Center Dr. Efraim Zuroff in a letter to the court), can be viciously labeled an “anti-Semitic”. Here we have two examples of how this works, namely two Ahriman-published magazine covers which according to perspektive attorney Sven Forst contain ‘anti-Semitic codes’:

The title on the left reads “Bravo, Donald! Keep fighting against the rogues from Soros to Rockefeller!” By this title, according to attorney Forst, Ahriman “reproduces anti-Semitic codes”, even more so as, according to Forst, “President Trump has stood out repeatedly by anti-Semitic remarks” (!). And the cover on the right is commented by Forst as follows: “The cover of Ketzerbriefe 222 shows George Soros gripping the globe respectively hitting it with a spiked mace in the form of the Covid-19 virus. This symbolism, just like focusing on George Soros to whom the steering and manipulation of global events is ascribed, corresponds to anti- Semitic codes.” This is precisely the language we find in the spy agency’s latest report: A pro-Trump stance or a political criticism of Soros (whose organizations, e.g. Project Syndicate, indeed played an important role in establishing the worldwide Covid regime) is supposed to be enough for labeling a staunchly philo-Semitic publisher as “anti-Semitic”.
Last September, in a surprise coup the Freiburg Regional Court dismissed Ahriman’s lawsuit on the absurd grounds that a publisher can be labeled anti-Semitic without any factual basis. However, it is uncertain whether the Higher Regional Court will follow this line since it radically breaks with the longstanding case law requiring always a factual basis for insulting statements. At this delicate point, the spy agency’s new guidance comes into play, putting pressure on the higher court to dismiss the appeal by adopting the arbitrary concept of “anti-Semitic codes” instead of the needed, but missing factual basis for perspective’s assertion. As this court case is the first one in Germany revolving entirely about the treacherous concept of “anti-Semitic codes”, the government has an obvious interest in its outcome and likely attempts to influence it by the new report.
With this censorship pamphlet, the destruction of freedom of speech in Germany, which J.D. Vance sharply condemned at the 2025 Munich Security Conference, is reaching a new level which reminds more and more of the situation in the Third Reich.

Only the international public can stop this dangerous development! – We are calling for protest letters:
Oberlandesgericht Karlsruhe
Salzstr. 28
D-79098 Freiburg, Germany
Email: poststelle@olgzsfreiburg.justiz.bwl.de
Please be sure to include the Case No. 14 U 120/25
(with a copy to AHRIMAN Publishing House)

Trial date:  September 8, 2026, 14:00 in 79098 Freiburg, Salzstr. 28 – Public is welcome! 

Press release, June 2026 in PDF

  Charles James “Charlie” Kirk (†31) was a confidant of US President Donald Trump and Vice President J. D. Vance. He was a role model for American youth because, especially at universities, he sought discussion with his opponents at his prove me wrong-events, just like Voltaire, and even explicitly encouraged them to express their opinions. One cannot act in a more exemplary manner in terms of freedom of opinion, namely in accordance with the old but still valid audiatur et altera pars (hear the other side, too). Everything else about the cowardly murderous attack is probably already known; a suspect was quickly arrested (well, where there's a will, there's a way). However, one thing still needs to be clarified, apart from the actual masterminds behind the murder: Why didn't we Germans know Charlie Kirk until September 10, 2025? Why did our truth press never report on him, when now they all suddenly know that Kirk was a “confidant” of Trump and Vance, perhaps even crucial to their election victory? And also an idol of Republican youth?! Wouldn't that have been worth mentioning at some point, at least since Donald Trump took office? Of course, the streamlined mass media knew about Kirk, the founder of the organization “Turning Point USA,” but they kept him secret from us so that the spark of encouragement wouldn't jump across the pond and ignite a fire for freedom of speech here, too. Now that he has been violently silenced forever, they can finally throw mud at him, because before, he could have defended himself, for example, in an open debate. But for our truth press there is nothing worse than direct and equal confrontation with a sovereign opponent, because their embarrassment in this is inevitable. They only love defamation of dead people. That's why they stink so much.

 After the first major electoral success of the oppositional party Rassemblement National (RN), which has been defamed and discriminated against for decades and has even been cut off from standard bank loans, the Tribunal de Grande Instance in Paris (comparable to a county court in Germany) has now, on March 31, 2025, passed a scandalous judgement against this party, which criminalises it in an unprecedented manner and, if it is not lifted, means nothing less than the end of free elections in our neighbouring country:

Twenty-four RN members and employees received prison sentences, many amounting to several years, fines and years of ineligibility (withdrawal of the passive right to vote), including Marine Le Pen herself, who was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment, a fine of € 100,000 and ineligibility for five years. Additionally, the party itself was given a two-million-euro fine. And finally, those convicted must pay three-and-a-half million euros in "compensation" to the European Parliament.

To sum up: two dozen prison sentences, ruinous new debts of more than five million euros (!) and the exclusion of leading party representatives from the elections are intended to force the very pariah status on the Rassemblement National, which had been brought about by its marginalisation by the relentless smears of the media and the antidemocratic French majority voting system which they had just, for the first time, managed to break away from by means of decades of perseverance against the (near-) universally hated Macron and the oh-so-left-wing Mélenchon, who joined forces with him against the RN, and thereby render the votes of more than ten million people who had voted for the RN last summer null and void!

As if that were not already enough, the court, on its own authority (a so-called "discretionary decision"!), robbed Marine Le Pen of any effective legal redress, because it had also ordered the immediate enforcement of her ineligibility that had been imposed as part of the conviction, meaning that she is not permitted to take part either in the next presidential elections (2027) or the parliamentary elections (2029)! This means that the appeal she had lodged against this is without suspensory effect and she is not allowed to stand for election, even though the unjust first-instance decision is not legally binding and the presumption of innocence is still valid in her case. Since Marine Le Pen is well in front in all opinion polls for the next presidential elections, that means nothing less that a court having the impudence to ban the people from electing Marine Le Pen as the next President of France, i.e. abolishing free presidential elections in France!

The path of Romania towards dictatorship, where arbitrary actions by the judicial system have also led to the people being banned from electing first Diana Șoșoacă, then Călin Georgescu as State President, is now also being followed by France:

The – as President Trump fittingly put it - "witch hunt against Marine Le Pen", who is now being cursed and having insults spewed at her along the lines of “seven-figure fraudster” by the unison press and television media of the EU/NATO states consists in a criminal proceeding which has been dragged out over ten years and more (the alleged events nearly all took place more than ten years ago, some of them more than twenty!) with the following arbitrary construct:

The horrendous sentences handed out to Rassemblement National were imposed solely because it had made use of some of the parliamentary assistants of its MEPs in Paris (or other French cities) instead of in Brussels or Strasbourg and this use was broader in thematic terms than strictly referring to the EU agenda, but always exclusively for political party work and always with a full complement of working hours. That’s all. Not one cent of the salaries these assistants received from the EU budget was used for private purposes, not a single working hour less performed than paid for with these salaries. In these proceedings, which had been ongoing against her for more than ten years (!) under this pretext, Marine Le Pen had repeatedly pointed out that the EU parliamentary assistants were only able to be involved effectively in the political opinion formation of the people in this way – which is, for example, the foremost responsibility of a political party under German law (Art. 21). Because on the one hand, the RN MEPs had been treated like lepers by the rest of the MEPs representing the cartel parties for decades (the uniparty of SPD/CDU/Greens and their equivalents in other EU countries) and by means of a cordon sanitaire (a “firewall”, a propaganda word for morons used in Germany for the unjust treatment of the AfD) systematically kept away from committee work and even largely the right to speak, i.e. condemned to inactivity. On the other hand, because of the undemocratic set-up of the EU, its parliament does not have that much to say to start with (it has neither the right of legislative initiative nor the right to nominate the “EU government”, the Commission, i.e. neither of the two core rights of any genuine parliament), and for this reason effective European policy can only be executed via the strengthening of national parliaments and the corresponding national government participation, in other words, exactly what Le Pen’s party used its EU parliamentary assistants for, and they, of course, also accompanied the MEPs on their trips to the EU parliamentary meetings in Brussels and Strasbourg and also did the work necessary for this. So the idea of these being “fictitious employment contracts” is a lie.

This method of employing EU parliamentary assistants was also declared openly by the Rassemblement National in every case (even in its official organigram!) and was generally known, and it is also in keeping with the practice that has been widespread among other members and parties in the EU parliament for a long time and which has hardly ever been of any interest to the EU Bureau of Parliament in other instances. In the case of the RN, too, it slyly allowed this working method to continue for ten years with open eyes, but then suddenly, on the orders of the SPD functionary Martin Schulz, who was President of the European Parliament at the time, demanded massive return payments going back nearly ten years (!) from 2014. And then, only another ten years later (!), did the French judiciary press charges for alleged “misappropriation of funds by state officials" (Art. 432-15 Code pénal). Now in French criminal law, “state officials” can, of course, only mean French state officials, and with this additional arbitrary act of suddenly extending this punishability to encompass the officials of international organisations such as the Universal Postal Union or, as in this case, the EU, the nulla poena sine lege principle was also violated on account of its unpredictable novelty. And so, now, Marine Le Pen and her 23 convicted companions are being treated as if they were serious criminals who lined their pockets with millions, and handed out dishonouring and livelihood-destroying prison sentences and astronomical fines and exclusion from public life!

Reverse this draconian sentence against Marine Le Pen and all the other convicted representatives of the Rassemblement National! Restore free elections in France!

We adopt the words of Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán as posted on "X":

Je suis Marine Le Pen

and also the words of American president Donald J. Trump, who wrote on "Truth Social" about Marine Le Pen on 4 April, 2025: It is the same 'playbook' that was used against me (...) I don't know Marine Le Pen, but do appreciate how hard she worked for so many years. She suffered losses, but kept on going, and now, just before what would be a Big Victory, they get her on a minor charge that she probably knew nothing about – Sounds like a 'bookkeeping' error to me. It is all so bad for France, and the Great French People, no matter what side they are on. FREE MARINE LE PEN!

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Updated on July 12, 2026

Politically Motivated Disgraceful Verdict Against Marine Le Pen – Yet the “Quality” Media Are Howling

On July 7, 2026, the appellate court handed down its ruling against Marine Le Pen and, shamefully, upheld the first-instance criminal verdict despite some mitigating factors. As a reminder: In April 2025, Marine Le Pen, along with 23 other members of the Rassemblement National (RN), had been sentenced to exorbitant, livelihood-destroying prison terms and fines; above all, however, she was stripped of her right to stand for election for five years, thereby simultaneously the French people were deprived of their right to free elections. Yet the RN had by no means, as the “quality” media claim, “misappropriated EU tax money,” but rather employed its European Parliament assistants in exactly the same way as numerous other MEPs do – albeit without being harassed for it. (The whole rigged infamous farce can be read about in the main article above.

The verdict against Marine Le Pen is now as follows: three years in prison, two of which are suspended and one to be served with an electronic ankle monitor (the first-instance ruling was four years in prison), a €100,000 fine, and ineligibility for 45 months, 30 months of which are suspended (the first-instance ruling was five years). However, since the first-instance ruling regarding the disqualification from holding office was enforced immediately, the 15 months of ineligibility has already elapsed, and Marine Le Pen can run as a candidate in the next presidential election in 2027 (albeit possibly with a humiliating electronic ankle monitor that severely restricts her freedom of movement and thus her ability to campaign).

Following the ruling, Marine Le Pen stated that this would restore the freedom to vote to French voters. However, the main reason for this ruling appears to be that, despite her criminal conviction in the first instance, Marine Le Pen’s approval ratings among the public hardly declined, and she continued to lead her rivals in the polls as a presidential candidate. The political background – the abolition of free elections, as recently seen in Romania – would have been too obvious. Thus, the appellate court’s ruling – which remains arbitrary, life-destroying, and politically motivated never the less – was intended to shroud the tip of the iceberg in clouds, but nothing more. After the first-instance ruling, Marine Le Pen had stated that she would not run for office while wearing an electronic ankle monitor. However, this condition was upheld in the appellate ruling. Yet immediately after the verdict was handed down on July 7, 2026, Marine Le Pen declared that she would now, after all, stand as a presidential candidate – a move that sent the mainstream media into a frenzy, as they had been banking on the RN’s replacement candidate, Jordan Bardella, since he, a spruced up “son-in-law” type, on the one hand, does not have the same roots in the French population as the political veteran Le Pen, and on the other hand, also lacks her (albeit, regrettably, often incomplete) abilities (unlike Le Pen, he lacks the “license to drive political heavy-duty lorries,” as Le Figaro recently fantasized – whatever that may mean). With Bardella, there was a reasonable prospect that either no RN representative would become president or that the RN platform would be watered down over time. In this respect, one can only hope that Marine Le Pen will indeed run as a presidential candidate.

The chaste state whore taz (July 8, 2026, the only German newspaper directly funded by taxpayer money) spewed venom and bile: “She [Marine Le Pen] doesn’t give a damn about morality,” (the taz, the paper for massacres against Serbs, killing Russians, and – morality...) and laments that the courts are not “protecting the republic from a person who handles public funds so recklessly and criminally.” Well, anyone who doesn’t condemn the financial coup by Merz & Co. – which will cost German taxpayers hundreds of billions of euros in real terms over the coming decades – and at the same time holds out their hands for money, should better keep their filthy mouth shut when it comes to fabricated “embezzlement” charges.

The appellate ruling, too, remains a political, dishonoring unjust verdict!

 Since February 5, 2026, Dr. Bianca Witzschel, a physician from Moritzburg (Saxony), has been back in prison – for at least another nearly one and a half years, due to the relentless vendetta of the Covid regime. After having been held in pretrial detention for 16 months until June 2024 like a serious criminal, she had finally been convicted by the Dresden Regional Court in a months-long show trial. As a reminder: Dr. Witzschel’s “crime” consisted solely of the fact that, as a doctor during the Covid terror, she had issued medical certificates to numerous patients exempting them for medical reasons from the obligation to wear the mask – that degrading muzzle that one was initially supposed to tailor for oneself, but whose futility was always clear even later and is now even officially acknowledged. Furthermore, she had certified some patients not to be vaccinated for health reasons or be allowed to take saliva tests instead of the painful swabs in the throat and nose that were mandated non-stop at the time (see earlier reports in our periodical Ketzerbriefe (Heretics’ Letters): Freedom for Dr. Bianca Witzschel (KB 242/243) and Shameful Verdict Against Dr. Bianca Witzschel (KB 246) (both in German).

Two years and eight months in prison for these “crimes” – in reality, for medical acts performed for the benefit of patients – plus a three-year ban on practicing medicine and the confiscation of her assets amounting to 47,000 €: such was the shameful verdict handed down by the Dresden court. The appeal filed by Dr. Witzschel was rejected by the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) after more than a year with a stroke of the pen – hardly surprising for a court within the same judicial apparatus that has, without exception, rubber-stamped all state measures of the former Covid regime. Hence, Dr. Bianca Witzschel must now return to prison. From the first day on, her persecution has been accompanied by smear campaigns and malice from the relentlessly lying press (“Reich Citizens’ doctor,” “1,000 courtesy medical opinions,” “certificates issued and sold without prior medical examination” (which is a blatant lie), “completely unclear what happened to the money”, all from the Sächsische Zeitung of Feb. 3, 2026).

Dr. Witzschel has been professionally and financially ruined by the judiciary’s year-long vendetta for the sole reason that she had dared to challenge the tyranny of the Covid state measures and to follow her Hippocratic oath in the interest of her patients: The willing Medical Association revoked her medical license instantly, she was subdued to an extremely costly criminal trial, her assets have been confiscated, she is imprisoned for years, she is no longer able to pay her bills. She is no longer entitled to work and has lost all her patients. She has not even recovered her patient files which were also confiscated – in other words, stolen – during one of the five (!) house searches ordered against her. Her home and practice building has been auctioned off at a price far below its value, reminding of the way Jewish property had been sold at forced auctions in the Third Reich at giveaway prices. Her bank account and health insurance have been terminated. She is literally left with nothing. This is the reality of Germany's “free democratic basic order” constantly invoked by the hypocritical authorities. Let us imagine that the same thing had happened in the former East German GDR – what an outcry the same prostituted media would have raised!

But: Dr. Bianca Witzschel remains personally completely unbroken, just like so many KPD martyrs during Hitler's dictatorship. No one who has witnessed her will be able to deny her the highest respect for her courageous steadfastness as a veritable martyr of the Covid regime (even if they do not share her views on vaccination)! Her unbending attitude was not only met by hateful press comments – “no sense of wrongdoing” –, but it is likely the reason why the public prosecutor is continuing to pursue her fanatically even after her conviction. As reported, the prosecutor has now filed a second indictment accusing her once again of “issuing incorrect health certificates on a commercial basis”, i.e. for the same act for which she was already convicted (which, legally speaking, should count as a single “offense” – key term for lawyers: “continuity of offense”), only this time regarding different certificates! Particularly egregious and telling is the accusation of “commercial activity” because according to the “Amendment to the Infection Protection Act” from November 2021 and the thereby newly inserted Paragraph 2 of Section 278 of the German Criminal Code (StGB), if the doctor has received a fee for his certificates as usual, this is deemed a “particularly serious case,” punishable by imprisonment ranging from 3 months to five years! This proceeding has already been opened by court order. Furthermore, the public prosecutor’s office is planning an additional third proceeding, again regarding yet more medical certificates. There is no doubt: The judiciary wants to see the now 69-year-old doctor groveling submissively or be buried in prison. Just as in Hitler’s or Stalin’s days...

A few days before Dr. Witzschel was summoned to prison, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. publicly demanded that the German government end the political persecution of doctors and patients over mask certificates, vaccination records, and certificates of inability to be vaccinated. Earlier, also U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance had sharply demanded to restore freedom of speech and to put an end to the spreading censorship. And following Dr. Witzschel’s renewed arrest, U.S. government advisor Leland Lehrman addressed the Saxon Minister of Justice personally to demand specifically Dr. Witzschel’s release. Though the judiciary’s persecution of German doctors finally attracts increasing international attention, the persecutors obviously intend to go on with it as before. This is made clear by the fact that the German Health Minister, Nina Warken, herself responded to the growing international attention with a complete denial: no, she claimed, the constitutionally protected freedom of therapy applies; no, there is no political persecution of doctors. Not only the persecution of Dr. Bianca Witzschel, but also the cases of numerous other doctors driven from the country, criminalized, and ruined are simply being brushed off and lied about – the names of Dr. Schiffmann, Dr. Habig, Dr. Weber, Dr. Heisler are just a few examples, there are countless other victims.

We demand:

Freedom and full rehabilitation for Dr. Bianca Witzschel!

More than 46.000 supporters have already signed the corresponding petition (as of 01/08/2026):

In the spirit of solidarity, we then have called on everyone to support Dr. Witzschel by sending cards and letters to the prison and to give her the strength she so desperately needs to persevere.

Dr. Witzschel appreciates every message; she has expressly thanked us for the support (the fact that her response at the time did not reach us was likely not due to the often unreliable German Post this time, but rather to an unfortunately unreliable courier...)

If you would like to support Dr. Witzschel personally:

Donation account of the White Crane Medical Aid Organization:
Account holder: Förderverein Weißer Kranich
IBAN: DE56 7645 0000 0232 1701 91
Subject: “Schenkung für Bianca Witzschel”

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P.S.: To ensure that the mudslinging of the press does not go unchallenged, and so that readers can form a realistic picture of the details of the scandalous trial against Dr. Witzschel – even those not described here – we refer you to the commendable official press release – Persecution of Doctors in Germany (in German) by attorney Katja Wörmer, physician Dr. Monika Jiang, and journalist Kerstin Heusinger dated February 4, 2026.

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Latest Update, July 24, 2026:

On July 24, 2026, Dr. Bianca Witzschel was provisionally released from prison as the final third of her outrageous prison sentence has been suspended “on probation”. We are very pleased that, following this humiliating and deliberately degrading renewed imprisonment, she is now free once again and has – for the time beeing – escaped the prison walls and the direct physical grasp of her vindictive justice system! (Further information can be found in Ketzerbriefe 258.)

The protests – which we, too, have been calling for for years – have clearly not been in vain.

However, as we have reported, the district attorney’s office has already filed a second indictment against Dr. Witzschel, again for allegedly issuing “false medical certificates.” Furthermore, they are planning a third proceeding regarding yet more medical certificates. As we have written: The judiciary wants to see the now 69-year-old doctor groveling submissively or be buried in prison! The courageous doctor shall be sent to prison for a total of 4 years!

Only sustained public attention from both Germany and abroad can thwart this sinister plan!

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We are including here Dr. Witzschel’s response to our author, Armin Zadak, dated April 9, 2026:

Dear Mr. Zadak, esteemed members of the "Alliance against conformity”!

Yesterday I received your heartfelt letter, which included a copy of your new article about my current situation. Thank you very much for all your efforts in conducting thorough research, providing accurate accounts, and widely publicizing this information. This is the only way we can move forward in the spirit of “reverence for life.”
This letter brought not only the simple joy of receiving mail in this state of isolation, but also boundless hope and energy.

I wish you continued strength and success,
and send my warmest regards,

Bianca Witzschel