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Far-right German legislator arrested after 'Sieg Heil' salutes heard
(www.reuters.com)
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Much of this is semantics but if you look at the legal texts Germany doesn't have free speech (freie Rede) but freedom of opinion (Meinungsfreiheit). There's a lot of restrictions that don't exist under usual free speech legislations (insult, incitement, etc), but also protections that don't exist elsewhere, like true statement of fact being a water-tight defence against accusations of libel.