Merkel took a selfie with one of the perpetrators.”<br />“Regarding the ruling, we are pleased that the court shares our view<br />that the legal action initiated was not merited or the most effective way to resolve the situation.”<br />“We quickly disabled access to content that has been accurately reported to us by Mr. Modamani’s legal representatives,” the statement<br />added, “and will continue to respond quickly to valid reports of the content at issue from Mr. Modamani’s legal representatives.”<br />A court in Hamburg rejected that suit last year, but a court in Munich is examining it.<br />“This question was disputed by the parties and could not be clarified in the hearing,”<br />the judge said, suggesting it could be answered in a separate trial if pursued.<br />“We learned a lot from this case,” Mr. Jun said after the ruling.<br />He said the security detail had been ordered after an anonymous call several weeks earlier in which the person threatened to murder him<br />and cited information that Mr. Jun said only an insider could have known.<br />In Mr. Modamani’s case, such information was crucial, as simply erasing the original version of the disputed image would not ensure<br />that it could no longer be found elsewhere on the platform.<br />But we have learned which laws have to be changed.”<br />It shows a copy of Mr. Modamani’s original selfie with the chancellor, alongside images of the three men.
