German couple arrested for 'illegal' RT broadcasts --A German man and his Ukrainian wife allegedly provided banned Russian channels | 27 Sept 2024 | German authorities have arrested a couple suspected of providing RT and other Russian TV channels to customers via the internet, in violation of EU sanctions. The bloc banned almost all Russian media in March 2022, calling them a threat to democracy [LOL!] and citing the conflict in Ukraine. EU bans were then applied worldwide by some U.S.-based social media giants, such as YouTube. "The suspects are a 37-year-old German and his 42-year-old wife of Ukrainian nationality," the German customs service (Zoll) announced on Friday. They are "said to have offered several sanctioned Russian TV channels to their customers via an IP-TV service since at least the beginning of 2022." Police in the city of Karlsruhe raided the couple's apartment on Thursday, according to the customs statement. [Germany: still run by Nazis, 80 years later.]