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"I'm not scared:" Jacques Tilly, Germany’s most prominent carnival artist, has been accused in a Moscow court of criminally defaming the Russian army over his satirical models

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"I'm not scared:" Jacques Tilly, Germany’s most prominent carnival artist, has been accused in a Moscow court of criminally defaming the Russian army over his satirical models

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I’ve been charged for my anti-Putin carnival floats. I’m not scared

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Jacques Tilly has been accused in a Moscow court of criminally defaming Russia’s army over his satirical models about the war in Ukraine

A satirical sculptor from Düsseldorf has expressed bewilderment after Russian prosecutors charged him in a Moscow court with criminally defaming the country’s army.

Jacques Tilly, 62, is Germany’s most prominent designer of carnival floats and has spent 40 years creating outsized and grotesque papier-mâché models of figures including President Trump, Angela Merkel and Baroness May of Maidenhead.

Since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, his floats have repeatedly mocked President Putin’s brutality.

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This year’s float for the Düsseldorf carnival depicted Trump and Putin shaking hands, with President Zelensky crushed in their grip and haemorrhaging blood, along with the caption: “Hitler-Stalin pact 2.0”.

Previous editions have shown Putin choking on a map of Ukraine and posing naked alongside Trump and President Xi of China, with a gigantically enlarged scrotum emblazoned with the words “Make Russia great again”.

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Legally? Sure, but Russia is also known to kill people outside of Russia too. Although it’s probably not important enough to send agents.

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