Germany: Cicero files second complaint

Editor-in-chief Wolfram Weimer has once again filed a complaint with the Federal Constitutional Court. He is complaining about the disproportionate seizure of data following the search of the political magazine's offices.
According to a report in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the complaint is specifically directed against the seizure of the data copy of a hard disk. The second complaint concerns a partial aspect of the overall proceedings. It is possible that the two complaints will be combined. The Senate plans to hear the case on September 22.

Weimer's lawyers argued that the investigators should have examined the copy before the seizure and on site in order to take only the data that was necessary for their proceedings. The seizure of all data stored on the editorial computer was disproportionate and endangered the freedom of the press.

The first complaint filed was generally directed against the decision of the Local Court and the Regional Court of Potsdam on the admissibility of the search of the Cicero editorial offices and the seizure of editorial material.