It would be nice to see some objective information of what even happened there. There is next to no information in the image above, other than some German account closure by Germany due to § 3 Abs. Sanktionsdurchführungsgesetz.
Surely there is more information in that official paper than just that first page.
I couldn’t tell you what his wife did to be sanctioned so there’s not much info on that besides the tweet.
On the journalist himself there’s this article showing how the EU along with Zionist ran German media sanctioned him for spreading “Hamas propaganda”.
EU sanctions German journalist in shocking first over Gaza reporting
He’s a German citizen that was accused of “Russian misinformation”, which these days means any criticism of EU actions:
Doğru has consistently opposed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a stance he reiterated in public statements. However, his critical reporting on German domestic policies, particularly the suppression of Palestine solidarity actions, drew scrutiny from mainstream media and officials.
The EU rationale links these actions to Russian interests: By amplifying narratives critical of Western policies (e.g., support for Israel or repression of protests), Doğru is said to indirectly aid Moscow’s efforts to sow division in Europe.
Maybe the EU shouldn’t be doing the things that are sowing division?? Maybe the criticism is grassroots and not funded by Ruzzia??
So his accounts were frozen in retaliation, and now his wife’s accounts were also frozen due to a shared car insurance. It is the typical silencing of critics that Francesca Albanese is also subjected to.
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Look how they caved in and licking boots of the Trump. The greens who voted against MERCOSUR deal fully supported the US deal. They are more like green washing party than green party and then we have genocide cheer leader Annalena. Nazi just like her grand parents.
When they can take money from the weakest they do it. When Papa Netanjahu does something illegal (literal genocide and blocking humanitarian aid) they stay silent.
EU: Shamelessly tramples on freedom of speech
EU stans: “It would have been against freedom of speech to not take their money, actually”
NAZI GERMANY, you mean.
Which isn’t exactly surprising,
Sadly this is EU wide sanctions. The entire EU apparatus has come together to sanction people who speak up against genocide.
That said, the campaign against the journalist was very much done by Zionist propaganda outlets and politicians in Nazi Germany in a coordinated Nazi blood libel campaign.
Haven’t seen a single instance of that which you describe in Portugal, were I live, and the country is currently ruled by the mainstream rightwing party which is basically the party formed by ex-Fascists after the Revolution in 74 which overthrew the Fascist Dictatorship and are definitelly pro-Israel (though most of the population is not, possibly because only a small part of the Press pushes pro-American Propaganda)
It would be a massive scandal around here if they tried to do shit like that - plenty of people who lived under Fascism are still alive and remember the censorship and state police.
Next door Spain too, isn’t doing that kind of shit as far as I know, mainly because the government there is center-left (if it was the “center”-right party, I bet they would try it, since they seem to be closer to their Fascist roots than the one in Portugal).
Also haven’t heard anything like that from The Netherlands (were I used to live).
Absolutelly, there are several of countries in Europe doing that kind of shit, most notably Germany and Britain, but as far as I can tell they’re a minority rather than a majority.
Whilst I don’t doubt the likes of Germany (and their agent who heads the EU Commission) would push for that kind of shit at an EU level (and plenty of country would give it lip service given Germany’s importance in the EU), A LOT of countries in Europe have societies which are against that censorship because of their values (Scandinavia, The Netherlands) or because they’ve lived under Fascism not that long ago and many people react badly against anything with a wiff of secret police and censorship (Portugal, Spain, probably Greece).
Also the EU Parliament is properly independent and, being way more representative than the EU Comission (thanks to actually being elected, via Proportional Vote no less) shies away from actual repressive measures like that - vaguelly worded condemning motions, sure, actually censoring people, not really.
I can give you this one off the top of my head, and there’s probably many more. There is plenty of EU wide repression against the voices of Palestinians but they barely get any media attention.
Netherlands to expel Palestinian journalist, raising fears of handover to Israelis
A larger article on it: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/11/palestinian-journalist-mustafa-ayyash-to-be-extradited-to-austria
He wasn’t expelled, he was arrested under a European Arrest Warrant issued by Austria, something that they could only do because the “crimes” he was accused of were commited in Austria.
Once in Austria he ended up being released by the Austrian authorities, so I guess the Austrian court system still works as it’s supposed to in a Democratic country.
From the side of The Netherlands that was bureaucracy doing it’s thing and obbeying that legal mechanism rather than that country practicing censorship.
But yeah, I’ve been quite worried about the European Arrest Warrant system being abused exactly because countries that are sliding into Fascism can use it to project their politics abroad, as well as other kinds of things which had influence in this situation such as the US having put Gaza Now in its list of terrorist organisations and Europe going along with it.
That’s not Europe as a whole repressing the voices of Palestinians, or even The Netherlands doing it, it’s a broader problem of how certain systems in the EU can be abused by Fascists if they take over in certain European countries as well as the excessive influence of America (which is way more rightwing) in Europe.
As for what the authorities in Austria did, frankly that’s not surprising or representative of most of the EU: Austria has had the far-right in power longer than everybody else in Europe and they’re pretty much a worse version of Germany, it’s just that, because they’re much smaller, it’s not generally talked about.
It’s quite a stretch to go from this to saying that Europe is NAZI.
From the side of The Netherlands that was bureaucracy doing it’s thing and obbeying that legal mechanism
Just following orders, if you will.
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(clarity- this is not sarcasm)
Double standard is part of Europe UNion politicians
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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
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.”
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
The account blocking has taken a form recently that I condemn
It looks like we were agreeing, but it was hard to say
there lre plenty support options
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.
“Are there no poor houses!”
Anyone who offers them assistance makes themselves guilty of “violating sanctions”. They are not allowed to receive help.
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.
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…
Freezing accounts is a preventative measure
Yeah, it prevents you from living
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.
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
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We don’t know if this is collective punishment, you’ve assumed so but we have no proof of that.
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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?
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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
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.
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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.
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
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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Fucking fedditors again boil germany
The ‘f’ comes from ‘Fuhrer’
You mean like how weapons exports to Israel stopped because of all of those laws and restrictions? Oh that never happened.
*Germany
The EU sanctioned him
The EU sanctioned him and Germany supports and complies with the sanctions. Both are equally guilty. It’s Nazis all the way up.
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This particularly sad example of a german “leftist” has been tone policing people that lost friends in the genocide. https://lemmy.ml/post/44887464/24729035
You could have scrolled down and read the post but alas. Your news reading skills are again lacking.
Pro tip: banning all discourse does not make your post better.
Actually, banning all neonazis does make a post better
Nazi propaganda isn’t discourse. You don’t get to lie to justify starvation of children and genocide. Ironic coming from feddit.org
Really? Starving children? Their bank accounts were seized, they weren’t imprisoned. The mother should be able to plan ahead for some days.
Honestly this kind of catastrophizing makes it difficult to understand what the actual issue is, which is a journalist is being sanctioned for being critical of their government
How far are they supposed to plan ahead, a year?
He can’t buy food for his kids.
Ahead enough to figure out a care plan for their children?
So you’re saying he shouldn’t have covered the genocide in Gaza, or that he should have put money in his mattress, and it’s his fault his children are now at risk, rather than the system that decided to sanction him over his coverage of Gaza?
No. He’s provided an invaluable service to the rest of us. Ideally someone is his community offer to care for the children while his wife disentangles herself from the sanctions. He knew since last year he was being sanctioned, it’s not responsible to forgoe a contingency plan for his loved ones.
This shouldn’t have been a surprise, and it should be a wake-up call for other journalists to create these sort of contingency plans.
Bro the contingency was his wife had money and could shoulder the burden for a little while. Then they froze all of her assets too. You know, the person NOT under sanctions for covering isreals ethnic cleansing.
TF is wrong with you?
Ahead enough of what? Should we have contingency plans in case the EU one day out of the blue decides to sanction us??? How far ahead should we be planning? Stock up for a year? How should we pay rent, utilities, health insurance etc with no bank account?
If you have kids, yeah you should have a contingency plan for their care if you aren’t capable of providing for them.
Right, but what if I am able to provide for them but then the EU decides to seize my and my wifes accounts leaving us high and dry?
I guess if you’ve done nothing and you are all out of ideas, great, you’re fucked.
does nothing
gets EU sanctionedcompletely my fault lol
How do you have a contingency plan for having all of your money taken away???
“Just figure it out, dummy”
We should all have a plan in place in case our bank accounts are illegally seized I have my money buried in a secret location in the woods nearby
Both are issues, actual, as in they are actually happening (the sanction and therefore the unability to provide for the children)
On the one hand I agree, what is this “quite literally the European Union is starving kids”? I’m going to need some information about how the European Union is in charge of Germany for blocking someone’s bank account and how they are starving kids “literally”.
What seemingly has happened is terrible, and you are a bit misguided on the “the mother should be able to plan ahead”, but they are not being tortured, they are not imprisoned without food… They shouldn’t have to go through this but they have options and alternatives, even if it is going to charities, food banks or else. The whole idea implied that the EU is forcibly starving some kids is crazy and makes me have real trust issues here with how this is “reported”. Unfortunately I have no issues either thinking that this is being used as coercion or censoring by threatening the family of an unruly reporter. I hope this gets properly investigated and hopefully the wronged parties get compensation but the amount of people here falling for the ragebait or just pushing for it is terrible. I’ll have to loom for some sources to understand better the situation, if it is as represented in the post, this needs to go widely known.
OK there’s now a link in the post, unfortunately to x but it will have to do for now. It is posted by Dogru’s account too, so clearly it will show his point of view. But he does seem a lot more sensible than this post was:
“The federal government and its institutions have systematically selected us as a target: first me, then my wife, and now our toddlers and infants are affected. This decision deliberately endangers the welfare and health of our children,” he says. He argues that this contradicts not only international law, but also the German Basic Law, which guarantees the protection of children’s welfare. … “The aim of these measures is to break me and my family. The authorities are going so far as to knowingly endanger the health and well-being of infants,” says Doğru. “A possible next stage of escalation could consist of taking our children away from us—based on a situation created by the authorities themselves.”
As for the topic in this post, as bad as it is for Dogru and his family, they are still allowed to use some money it seems, just not enough for everything:
Although the German Federal Bank had allowed the journalist to use 506 euros per month for basic needs, according to the court payments beyond that amount were not covered.
There’s definitely a worse part on all this:
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.”
What the fuck is that about… How does that make any fucking sense. Now, that pisses me off to no end.
Fortunately there seems to be a lot more movement on this than it seemed implied at first. I hope their family manage to solve this and fast and those assholes that started this get to pay ten fold.
It’s absolutely coercion, and it’s something that we have to be ready for as a group. Right or wrong, it doesn’t help the mom and kids to decry these kinds of abuses. Creating the structure that robs governments of this power to coerce their citizens will help, if that’s child care or other direct action.
I’m going to need some information about how the European Union is in charge of Germany for blocking someone’s bank account and how they are starving kids “literally”.
The EU sanctioned this journalist and his wife denying them access to any of their accounts. Germany complies with and enforces the EU sanctions. This was done entirely without trial and there is no legal recourse for the victims of this atrocity. They literally cannot buy food for their children because they cannot buy anything if they aren’t allowed to access their accounts. They are also forbidden from receiving money or services from anyone, under threat of the same sanctions being applied to anyone who offers them help.
but they are not being tortured, they are not imprisoned without food…
Except they are. If you have no money you cannot buy food. They are also not allowed to travel outside of the country to where they would not be subject to these sanctions. They are effectively imprisoned in a country where they are not allowed access to their own money.
They shouldn’t have to go through this but they have options and alternatives, even if it is going to charities, food banks or else.
Which part of “anyone who helps them by giving them money, goods or services makes themselves guilty of violating sanctions and will be sanctioned themselves” do you not understand? How do you think his wife came to be sanctioned? He was sanctioned for journalism and she was sanctioned for “helping him circumvent the sanctions”, aka paying bills that he could no longer pay because of sanctions.
The whole idea implied that the EU is forcibly starving some kids is crazy and makes me have real trust issues here with how this is “reported”.
That’s because you are operating on false assumptions and have not actually looked into how these sanctions work. They are now under threat of becoming homeless and being unable to feed their children because they are not allowed to receive or spend money! Including for rent. The only option for their children to not end up on the streets starving is for the children to be taken away by the government. Do you support taking away people’s children as punishment for journalism?
I hope this gets properly investigated and hopefully the wronged parties get compensation but the amount of people here falling for the ragebait or just pushing for it is terrible.
Investigated by who? The German state has made it clear that it considers these sanctions valid and will enforce them. Who is going to investigate the EU? What court are they supposed to appeal to when these sanctions are by definition extra-judicial? They were sanctioned without ever being tried in court for any crime and their own government says that’s ok. Nothing about this is ragebait. If you don’t feel rage at this atrocity there is something wrong with your moral compass.
