SPD wants to punish catcalling: “Legal loophole must be closed”:
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SPD Pushes Legal Action Against Verbal HarassmentSPD aims to close legal gaps and criminalize catcalling by 2026, following examples set by the Netherlands and others.
- The SPD parliamentary group advocates for making verbal sexual harassment, including catcalling, punishable by law.
- Sonja Eichwede highlights that perpetrators, not victims, must adjust their behavior and face consequences.
- A 2017 Federal Court ruling identified a legal gap concerning oral sexual harassment that the SPD wants to address.
- Countries like the Netherlands have already penalized catcalling, with the first fine imposed in 2024.
This legal gap must be closed. We cannot tolerate such behavior.— Sonja Eichwede, Deputy Chair of the SPD parliamentary group, in an interview with Stern about the need to criminalize catcalling.
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