Russia is prosecuting a German carnival float builder — he responded by making another Putin float

Moscow charges Jacques Tilly with “defaming Russian state organs” and threatens him with up to 10 years in prison, but Düsseldorf’s legendary satirist says he won’t be intimidated and is rolling out a new Putin wagon for Monday’s Rose Monday parade.

Russia's prosecution of a German satirist fits a pattern of weaponizing its judiciary against foreign critics of Moscow's war in Ukraine, extending the Kremlin's domestic crackdown on free speech beyond its own borders.

The 62-year-old sculptor, who faces Moscow's charges of "defaming Russian state bodies" and up to ten years in prison, sent all three floats through Dusseldorf's streets. One depicted a grim-looking Putin impaling a small carnival jester with a sword, while the tiny figure struck back with a cardboard clapper. The second showed Putin steering a blue AfD drone resembling party leader Alice Weidel — the AfD is Germany's pro-Russian party that came second in the previous parliamentary elections. The third portrayed Putin and Trump greedily devouring Europe together.

"It is a duel with very unequal weapons," Tilly told Tagesschau. On one side stand the Russian state's weapons, "which are quite sharp," and on the other side satire. "It is only made of cardboard, it can't kill," the artist said.

--- " Or Ukraine running a hit list of westerners who oppose them. Crazy talk!"

Many are prone to ignore:

"Myrotvorets or Mirotvorets (Ukrainian: Миротво́рець, pronounced [mɪroˈtwɔretsʲ]; lit. 'Peacemaker') is a Ukrainian Kyiv-based[1][2][3] website that publishes a running list, and sometimes personal information, of people who are considered by authors of the website to be "enemies of Ukraine",[7] or, as the website itself states, "whose actions have signs of crimes against the national security of Ukraine, peace, human security, and the international law".[8] The website was launched in December 2014 by Ukrainian politician and activist Georgy Tuka.[9][10][11] The publishing of personal information on the site has been criticized by human rights organizations.
Myrotvorets Wiki

Additionally:

"Jack Posobiec, Human Events senior editor, is the latest American citizen to be added to the Myrotvorets list. In the database, Posobiec is identified as an 'anti-Ukrainian propagandist' and a 'provocateur' that is a 'participant and initiator of information special operations in favor of the Kremlin.' The Myrotvorets Centre implores 'law enforcement agencies to consider this publication on the website as a statement about the commission by this citizen of deliberate acts against the national security of Ukraine, peace, the security of humanity and international law and order, as well as other offenses.'
"In the past, the list has included the names of other American citizens, such as Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, and Glenn Greenwald. World leaders have also found themselves on the Myrotvorets list from time to time, including Pope Francis." more....
Source: The ‘Peacemaker’ Hit List The American Conservative, 20 September 2023.

“If this German guy is driving his floats through German cities - and not Russian ones - how could he be breaking any Russian laws?”

It seems the Russians have made it illegal for anyone, anywhere, to make fun of Pooty Poot.

Countries do this kind of thing all the time.

For example, the USA makes it illegal for foreign nations, in a foreign country, to conspire to import drugs into the USA. Hence how the Venezuela dictator was arrested.

Excepting when you can send in Delta Force (or whatever) to make the arrest, the issue becomes if the host nation honors an extradition request and what happens when the person travels to a country that does.

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