The case of Luke Mockridge continues to cause a stir in the TV industry. Now the presenter Klaas Heufer-Umlauf has also taken up the topic in the current edition of his podcast.
After the cabaret artist Maren Kroymann picked up the microphone at the presentation of the German Comedy Prize and vented her anger at the industry’s very hesitant handling of the Mockridge case, the presenter Klaas Heufer-Umlauf also commented on the case. In the current edition of his he took up the topic: “It took me a little to understand why it is so important that you say something about it. And make your position clear to yourself again,” the 38-year-old explained Demand.
Regardless of the discussion about the errors of the judiciary, one must clearly state: “There is a picture of behavior that one must reject in any strictest form.” One has to show solidarity with the victims – in order to raise the inhibition threshold of “people who consider this to be normal in order to potentially prevent something like this in the future,” said Heufer-Umlauf.
“I am shocked […] It’s not clear to me how you can behave like that, “emphasized the moderator in the podcast. He hoped that everyone had now realized that” the limit to what you should and may do begins much earlier than anywhere some supposed law takes effect “.
And Heufer-Umlauf finds even clearer words: “There is no reason why one has to question that something like this can severely impair the psyche and the essence of a person. And that this is violence in any form that one has to reject. ”
Fall Luke Mockridge
Luke Mockridge had reported last August about the complaint of an ex-partner who, according to her own account, had perceived an incident on a night together as attempted rape. Mockridge denied the allegations in the video and announced a withdrawal from the public. “What I am being accused of did not happen,” he said. The public prosecutor’s office in Cologne confirmed that a corresponding procedure had been discontinued at the beginning of May 2020 due to a lack of sufficient suspicion. A complaint by the complainant against the decision was rejected as unfounded.
At the end of September, several women accused the comedian of sexual violence in an article in “Spiegel”. The 32-year-old then announced that he would be extending his withdrawal from the public. He canceled the Sat1 TV shows for 2022.
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