I don’t trust European governments considering their support for Israel, but even if that were true, does that give them the right to punish young children?
Sure, but they are not going to starve as written in the title. That’s just a blunt lie. They live in Germany and there are plenty of support options.
If the parents commit a crime related to their bank account, it’s reasonable to block these accounts.
The more relevant question is whether anything illegal has happened through his wive’s bank account. If so, block it. If not, don’t you dare block it. Simple as that
How far-reaching the consequences of the sanctions regime have become, according to the defense, was made clear by lawyer Gorski in an interview with Berliner Zeitung. The lawyer said that his client is not permitted to receive monetary donations and is also not allowed to accept food assistance. When asked whether a neighbor could already make himself liable to prosecution by bringing Doğru bread, Gorski answered: “Yes, the neighbor would theoretically make himself liable to prosecution.”
Did you even read my comment? This is precisely the point. If something illegal happened through her bank account, that would be the only viable reason to block it. If not, there is no justification to block it.
The account blocking has taken a form recently that I condemn, I don’t think this should be used in the political discourse.
From the information I could gather about the case, I can’t say what happened through her account. There are some vague statements from the Bundespressekonferenz that make it seem like the government/EU takes that position. The family and lawyer claim the opposite.
In this case, I would tend to side with the family until we know more. My point was just that there is quite a stretch between blocking a bank account and starving children.
no, i’m german with a disabled wife andstwo kids. I know you are talking out your ass because those institutions don’t offer services to poor people in terms off food assistance. The only notable such service is “die tafel” but good luck finding one that isn’t booked up for the next two years. There are some “lebensmittelrettung” whatsappgroups but they are first-come first-serve and usually just want to offload their stuff asap which, for people with kids this means you usually get the leftovers of what already are leftovers.
Caritas und Diakonie geben bei Bedarf z.B. Einkaufsgutscheine raus, weiß ich aus erster Hand. Das ist doch Quatsch, wir können doch nicht behaupten hier verhungern Kinder weil ein Konto gesperrt wird.
Sure, but they are not going to starve as written in the title. That’s just a blunt lie. They live in Germany and there are plenty of support options.
There aren’t support options because the way sanctions work is that anyone offering them any help becomes guilty of “violating the sanctions” and becomes sanctioned themselves. That is how the wife became sanctioned, by paying bills he could no longer pay due to sanctions. This means if anyone offers them any money, goods or services, including food, they automatically count as “attempting to circumvent sanctions” and will receive the same treatment. The sanctions are designed so that there are no support options other than having your children taken away by the government due to inability to feed them.
If the parents commit a crime related to their bank account, it’s reasonable to block these accounts.
Neither of them have committed any crime whatsoever. They were not legally charged with anything and they have no right to a court trial. These are EU sanctions. That means they don’t need to be legally justified and there is no court other than in Brussels where they can be appealed, but the sanctions include a travel ban which means he cannot travel to Brussels, or to any country where he is not sanctioned. This is effectively a slow death sentence. He was sanctioned for journalism which the EU alleges “destabilizes society” (by reporting on the Gaza genocide), and she was sanctioned for supporting their family financially.
The more relevant question is whether anything illegal has happened through his wive’s bank account.
Nothing illegal happened through her bank account, nor through his. I repeat: this is not about a crime. They have committed no crime nor have they been charged with a crime.
Freezing accounts is a preventative measure. The German government must have evidence that there’s likely criminal proceeds on these accounts, plus a real risk that these funds would be transferred elsewhere. A court case usually follows fairly quickly.
If a billionaire is accused of fraud, you wouldn’t want to allow them to transfer all their wealth out of the country before you can fine them, right?
It doesn’t, he’s explicitly allowed to withdraw enough money to cover basic needs. Dogru confirmed this in one article on this, but he’s also dishonest about it in his tweets where he suggets he’s not allowed to withdraw anything.
You don’t understand anything about this case or about how sanctions work.
There are no “criminal proceeds” because they have not committed any crime, and they have not been accused of any crime. There is no investigation and no court case. Their accounts were frozen because the EU imposed sanctions on them. He was sanctioned for his journalism and she was sanctioned for “helping him circumvent sanctions” by paying the bills when he no longer could because his accounts were frozen. They are not allowed to contest the sanctions in court because the sanctions are not a legal measure, they are an administrative measure applied by Brussels which the German government supports and complies with.
He is allowed to withdraw enough funds to cover the basic bills. She was sanctioned because he got a new car insurance in his name and used her account to pay for it.
There has been an investigation, and a ruling from the European Commission. He has also appealed that decision, which failed.
And the idea that they can’t challenge the sanctions in court is utter bullshit. You absolutely can challenge them before the GCEU/ECJ, which has made several rulings on applied sanctions in the past.
Isn’t that deeply disturbing to you? They can enact collective punishment like that and don’t even need to publicize why? This is what they keep telling us to slander the democratic peoples republic of korea
We don’t know if this is collective punishment, you’ve assumed so but we have no proof of that.
I don’t mind protecting people’s privacy and publicizing what crimes someone has been accused of, since just the accusation can have serious consequences. Imagine someone is accused of terrorism, this gets out to all the neighbours, and finally the judge clears their name; will those neighbours still trust them?
The people whose accounts are concerned will receive the reason why the accounts were blocked. They too haven’t publicized it.
We don’t know if this is collective punishment, you’ve assumed so but we have no proof of that.
Do you think they’ll just come out and say that? Her husband is a pro-palestine journalist and she gets her bank accounts frozen because of it what else would you call it?
I don’t mind protecting people’s privacy and publicizing what crimes someone has been accused of
She is already facing the sentencing though. The punishment is already doled out, without a trial.
The people whose accounts are concerned will receive the reason why the accounts were blocked. They too haven’t publicized it.
There is no formal charge, there is no trial, the EU can just sanction you apparently and you have to fight them while under sanction.
Her husband is a pro-palestine journalist and she gets her bank accounts frozen because of it what else would you call it?
Apparently the husband tried to (perhaps unwittingly) circumvent the sanctions placed on him through the accounts of his wife. That will get your accounts frozen alright.
I also don’t quite buy the whole narrative that he was sanctioned strictly for being pro-Palestine. There’s loads of journalists telling the Palestinian side of things, hell even a lot of state media is pretty critical of Israel these days.
I’ve seen the “evidence pack” that Dogru published (even though we have no idea if that’s a complete story). There’s definitely some stuff in there that I’d classify as pro-Kremlin falsehoods.
There’s also definitely some dishonesty going on from his side: he publicly claims he has no money left and can’t withdraw anything from his accounts (or his wife’s). But that’s simply not true, as he and his wife are both allowed to withdraw enough money to cover basic needs (not even to mention the social safety nets that Germany has, there’s no reason for his kids to go hungry).
He’s also stated he believes the invasion of Ukraine to be an illegal act by Russia, yet simultaneously promotes the viewpoint that NATO started a proxy war in Ukraine. There’s also some very precise wording going on, e.g. stating he’s not involved with Red anymore after Russia invaded Ukraine, but Red was controlled by AFA Medya, which he was still very much involved with. That same Red was also taking on employees who were also involved with RT.
I think there’s some very good reasons that unions and NGOs, which historically have taken on loads of cases of journalists being unfairly censored, aren’t touching this guy with a 10ft pole. The appeals process here is imo too nebulous, but regardless I doubt that he’d actually win the appeal.
This is a complete lie. He was sanctioned for criticism of Israel. He did some reporting for a Russian outlet many many years ago far before the war against Ukraine. He even spoke out against Russia at its start of the war against Ukraine.
They are using the paragraph they invented to silence journalists presenting an anti-ukraine perspective but the man has been reporting on the palestinian genocide and not ukraine afaik.
Doğru rejects the allegations. He confirms that he previously worked for Redfish, a format financed by the Russian broadcaster Ruptly. In the course of the Russian attack on Ukraine, however, he ended the employment relationship.
“I have always criticized that it was an invasion of Ukraine,” he said already in November 2025 in a conversation with Berliner Zeitung.
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I don’t trust European governments considering their support for Israel, but even if that were true, does that give them the right to punish young children?
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They blocked his wife’s bank account, I assume she’s not a young child.
They have young children
Sure, but they are not going to starve as written in the title. That’s just a blunt lie. They live in Germany and there are plenty of support options.
If the parents commit a crime related to their bank account, it’s reasonable to block these accounts.
The more relevant question is whether anything illegal has happened through his wive’s bank account. If so, block it. If not, don’t you dare block it. Simple as that
https://x.com/hussedogru/status/2038203613567144354
You seem to assume that she did something illegal based on the account being blocked, but that doesn’t always work like that
Did you even read my comment? This is precisely the point. If something illegal happened through her bank account, that would be the only viable reason to block it. If not, there is no justification to block it.
The account blocking has taken a form recently that I condemn, I don’t think this should be used in the political discourse.
From the information I could gather about the case, I can’t say what happened through her account. There are some vague statements from the Bundespressekonferenz that make it seem like the government/EU takes that position. The family and lawyer claim the opposite.
In this case, I would tend to side with the family until we know more. My point was just that there is quite a stretch between blocking a bank account and starving children.
I read it and didn’t get this even from re-reading now
It looks like we were agreeing, but it was hard to say
name them
Caritas, Diakonie, churches, several others. You must be trolling at this point
no, i’m german with a disabled wife andstwo kids. I know you are talking out your ass because those institutions don’t offer services to poor people in terms off food assistance. The only notable such service is “die tafel” but good luck finding one that isn’t booked up for the next two years. There are some “lebensmittelrettung” whatsappgroups but they are first-come first-serve and usually just want to offload their stuff asap which, for people with kids this means you usually get the leftovers of what already are leftovers.
Caritas und Diakonie geben bei Bedarf z.B. Einkaufsgutscheine raus, weiß ich aus erster Hand. Das ist doch Quatsch, wir können doch nicht behaupten hier verhungern Kinder weil ein Konto gesperrt wird.
“Are there no poor houses!”
Anyone who offers them assistance makes themselves guilty of “violating sanctions”. They are not allowed to receive help.
There aren’t support options because the way sanctions work is that anyone offering them any help becomes guilty of “violating the sanctions” and becomes sanctioned themselves. That is how the wife became sanctioned, by paying bills he could no longer pay due to sanctions. This means if anyone offers them any money, goods or services, including food, they automatically count as “attempting to circumvent sanctions” and will receive the same treatment. The sanctions are designed so that there are no support options other than having your children taken away by the government due to inability to feed them.
Neither of them have committed any crime whatsoever. They were not legally charged with anything and they have no right to a court trial. These are EU sanctions. That means they don’t need to be legally justified and there is no court other than in Brussels where they can be appealed, but the sanctions include a travel ban which means he cannot travel to Brussels, or to any country where he is not sanctioned. This is effectively a slow death sentence. He was sanctioned for journalism which the EU alleges “destabilizes society” (by reporting on the Gaza genocide), and she was sanctioned for supporting their family financially.
Nothing illegal happened through her bank account, nor through his. I repeat: this is not about a crime. They have committed no crime nor have they been charged with a crime.
Does a mother become immune from judicial persecution just because she has a child? Kids aren’t a get-out-of-jail-free card.
What did the mom do, other than being married to a guy convicted of antizionism?
We don’t know, as far as I know it hasn’t been publicized.
Guilty until proven innocent, then?
Freezing accounts is a preventative measure. The German government must have evidence that there’s likely criminal proceeds on these accounts, plus a real risk that these funds would be transferred elsewhere. A court case usually follows fairly quickly.
If a billionaire is accused of fraud, you wouldn’t want to allow them to transfer all their wealth out of the country before you can fine them, right?
Yeah, if the German government persecutes someone, that means they must have evidence to justify it…
Yeah, it prevents you from living
It doesn’t, he’s explicitly allowed to withdraw enough money to cover basic needs. Dogru confirmed this in one article on this, but he’s also dishonest about it in his tweets where he suggets he’s not allowed to withdraw anything.
You don’t understand anything about this case or about how sanctions work.
There are no “criminal proceeds” because they have not committed any crime, and they have not been accused of any crime. There is no investigation and no court case. Their accounts were frozen because the EU imposed sanctions on them. He was sanctioned for his journalism and she was sanctioned for “helping him circumvent sanctions” by paying the bills when he no longer could because his accounts were frozen. They are not allowed to contest the sanctions in court because the sanctions are not a legal measure, they are an administrative measure applied by Brussels which the German government supports and complies with.
He is allowed to withdraw enough funds to cover the basic bills. She was sanctioned because he got a new car insurance in his name and used her account to pay for it.
There has been an investigation, and a ruling from the European Commission. He has also appealed that decision, which failed.
And the idea that they can’t challenge the sanctions in court is utter bullshit. You absolutely can challenge them before the GCEU/ECJ, which has made several rulings on applied sanctions in the past.
Isn’t that deeply disturbing to you? They can enact collective punishment like that and don’t even need to publicize why? This is what they keep telling us to slander the democratic peoples republic of korea
We don’t know if this is collective punishment, you’ve assumed so but we have no proof of that.
I don’t mind protecting people’s privacy and publicizing what crimes someone has been accused of, since just the accusation can have serious consequences. Imagine someone is accused of terrorism, this gets out to all the neighbours, and finally the judge clears their name; will those neighbours still trust them?
The people whose accounts are concerned will receive the reason why the accounts were blocked. They too haven’t publicized it.
Edit: op mended with the journalists account of what happened. This is really scary. https://x.com/hussedogru/status/2038203613567144354
Do you think they’ll just come out and say that? Her husband is a pro-palestine journalist and she gets her bank accounts frozen because of it what else would you call it?
She is already facing the sentencing though. The punishment is already doled out, without a trial.
There is no formal charge, there is no trial, the EU can just sanction you apparently and you have to fight them while under sanction.
Apparently the husband tried to (perhaps unwittingly) circumvent the sanctions placed on him through the accounts of his wife. That will get your accounts frozen alright.
I also don’t quite buy the whole narrative that he was sanctioned strictly for being pro-Palestine. There’s loads of journalists telling the Palestinian side of things, hell even a lot of state media is pretty critical of Israel these days.
I’ve seen the “evidence pack” that Dogru published (even though we have no idea if that’s a complete story). There’s definitely some stuff in there that I’d classify as pro-Kremlin falsehoods.
There’s also definitely some dishonesty going on from his side: he publicly claims he has no money left and can’t withdraw anything from his accounts (or his wife’s). But that’s simply not true, as he and his wife are both allowed to withdraw enough money to cover basic needs (not even to mention the social safety nets that Germany has, there’s no reason for his kids to go hungry).
He’s also stated he believes the invasion of Ukraine to be an illegal act by Russia, yet simultaneously promotes the viewpoint that NATO started a proxy war in Ukraine. There’s also some very precise wording going on, e.g. stating he’s not involved with Red anymore after Russia invaded Ukraine, but Red was controlled by AFA Medya, which he was still very much involved with. That same Red was also taking on employees who were also involved with RT.
I think there’s some very good reasons that unions and NGOs, which historically have taken on loads of cases of journalists being unfairly censored, aren’t touching this guy with a 10ft pole. The appeals process here is imo too nebulous, but regardless I doubt that he’d actually win the appeal.
Neither is molesting them enough for a “get into jail free card” or at least a “get impeached free card”, seeing all the people on The List.
This is a complete lie. He was sanctioned for criticism of Israel. He did some reporting for a Russian outlet many many years ago far before the war against Ukraine. He even spoke out against Russia at its start of the war against Ukraine.
Europe Is Sanctioning Critics of Israel and Militarism
They are using the paragraph they invented to silence journalists presenting an anti-ukraine perspective but the man has been reporting on the palestinian genocide and not ukraine afaik.
Indeed. https://x.com/i/status/2038203613567144354