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Petitioner who wanted Austria to withdraw from Euro 2008 fined
May 22, 2008
INNSBRUCK, Austria — A man who set up an online petition to have the Austrian soccer team withdrawn from next month’s European Championship was fined 1,500 euros ($2,200) for misusing the national coat of arms on his website.
Michael Kriess said Thursday he appealed the verdict and a hearing would take place on June 5.
The city council court of Innsbruck, which could not be reached for comment Thursday, fined Kriess for damaging Austria’s reputation by publishing a manipulated image of the coat of arms, in which a crown was replaced by a soccer ball.
Well done, the Austrian judges! I hope the court of appeal will double the sum
http://www402.ws7.inname.net/initiative_uk.php
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The petition, in English and German, says Austrian football is an insult to the beautiful game.
It appeals to football fans who "love this great sport for the sheer beauty of it" but who "fall into a dismal state of depression when watching a match featuring the Austrian national football team".
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But the authorities have not taken kindly to Mr Kreiss’ initiative. He has been fined 1,500 euros (£1,177; $2,334) for bastardising the country’s football logo - obscuring the famous eagle’s head with a football.
"One cannot accept this. This is the first time this law has been used since the constitution came in after the war. This is not democracy," says Mr Kreiss, who is appealing against the verdict.
He hasn’t "obscured" the eagle’s head with the ball. Judging from the crack marks on the surface behind the ball, I’d say the eagle took a very hard ball to the face.
As amusing as I find the image, I strongly support the fines.
Madalch;59020 wrote:
As amusing as I find the image, I strongly support the fines.
My first instinct was to strongly disagree with the fines. I, admittedly come at this from a decidedly American/First Amendment point of view, but I understood that this person had created this defiled image for display on his website to illustrate a point, and I was going to disagree with the ruling by arguing that the right to express an opinion should trump the right of a nation to have it’s arms protected.
However, after following the link provided by Michael, I see that my assumption was not the case. Clearly this person created his own logo from these defiled arms, even going so far as to sell it on T-shirts. Even in a country, such as ours, without specific heraldic protection, this may have led to legal action.
To add to his list of crimes, he neglected to even run his website text through a spell checker before asking others to jump on board his bandwagon.
I hope the value of the publicity he gets is worth the fine. That is funny.
P.S. Too bad there isn’t a law in Bosnia about defiling heraldry (Those who don’t know what I am talking about should take a look at the "Celic" thread.)
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Hearing of the appeal surprisingly shifted - judge gets sick!
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