We all know what happened in the Oval Office in the White House in Washington. There are plenty of videos of it. But it's difficult to turn such things into a cartoon in Germany. The reason for this is the new version of Section 188 of the Criminal Code of the Federal Republic of Germany. According to this law, it is forbidden to publicly insult public officials. The first judgements brought hefty fines and in one case the maximum sentence of 3 years, but because ‘the perpetrator had not previously been guilty of anything, only a few months in prison on probation. He doesn't have to serve it.
The funny thing about this paragraph is that there's no problem with Vladimir Putin, or with Donald Trump, but with Zelensky, things get tight. If I were to caricature Merz, or Pistorius, Strack-Rheinmetall, Baerbock, or Habeck, the police might show up before breakfast, although I find that a little mean. Before you find yourself in a police station, you want to have your coffee.
So you have to come up with something. "I'll steam politicians into species protection" and turn them into rabbits or hares.
