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posted by takyon on Tuesday August 04 2015, @08:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the independent-judiciary dept.

Earlier this week we read about the German Public Prosecutor opening up a treason investigation.

Within hours, the investigation was halted. And now the public prosecutor lost his job over it.

Looks like this Slashdot commenter foresaw accurately what would happen, based on a very similar past incident:

Also at the BBC and Deutsche Welle.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Refugee from beyond on Tuesday August 04 2015, @08:48PM

    by Refugee from beyond (2699) on Tuesday August 04 2015, @08:48PM (#218109)

    Could you please warn about links to Slashdot or something? *cough* Whenever I read “this commenter” I expect to remain on the site I'm reading. Or maybe it's just me.

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  • (Score: 1) by miljo on Tuesday August 04 2015, @08:56PM

    by miljo (5757) on Tuesday August 04 2015, @08:56PM (#218118) Journal

    Oh good. I was going to say the same thing but I haven't been here long enough to know whether or not blind linking to /. was actually as crappy as it felt.

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  • (Score: 2) by Lunix Nutcase on Tuesday August 04 2015, @09:08PM

    by Lunix Nutcase (3913) on Tuesday August 04 2015, @09:08PM (#218130)

    That's a pretty tragic first-world problem you got there.

    • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by Refugee from beyond on Tuesday August 04 2015, @09:22PM

      by Refugee from beyond (2699) on Tuesday August 04 2015, @09:22PM (#218139)

      We've got plenty of problems here in Russia, including yours “first-world” ones.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @05:02PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @05:02PM (#218641)

      That's a pretty tragic first-world problem you got there.

      That's a pretty obvious fallacy [wikipedia.org] you got there.