Berlin wants to get rid of filming accidents audience

- Berlin and Lower Saxony to criminally prosecute photographing or filming viewers in accidents. Increasingly accidents attract the attention of hordes of passers-equipped with smartphones and other types of cameras. Berlin and Hanover find that the existing rules protecting workers and victims against nuisance or unwanted publications are not sufficient facing the sometimes massive curiosity.

They have therefore Friday proposed a bill in the German Bundesrat, a kind of Senate, where all states are represented. The Bundesrat may or initiate legislation, unlike the Dutch Senate. Berlin and Lower Saxony state that there should be a maximum of one year imprisonment and / or fines for disaster tourists not help but take pictures and then distribute or sell.