DR. SARAFI lawyers achieve further success against the controversial streamer “Shurjoka”

Hamburg, June 4, 2025 — In the dispute between two well-known Internet personalities, the Regional Court of Hamburg has once again ruled in favour of our client. The streamer “Shurjoka” was sentenced to refrain from making certain statements about our client. Specifically, it concerned the claim that he had viewed child or adolescent pornographic content or admitted to having consumed such content himself. The court clarified: These allegations are devoid of any factual basis and seriously violate general personality law.

Background: Public online conflict between two content creators

Both our client and Shurjoka operate wide-reaching Twitch channels and regularly comment on socio-political and personal topics there. There has been a public dispute between the two for a long time, which has now been brought to court several times.

The starting point for the current decision was a statement made by our client in a live stream on April 25, 2024, in which he spoke about the criminal handling of so-called “revealing images” that Shurjoka had created himself at the age of 16 to 17 and later unintentionally found on the Internet. The streamer had already publicly addressed this process herself in 2019 and commented on it several times.

Shurjoka responded to our client's statements with serious allegations. In several posts, both on Twitch and on X (formerly Twitter), she explained that he had “viewed child pornography” or admitted that he had “watched” related content from her. She repeatedly disseminated these statements to her community of over 220,000 followers.

Since these allegations are demonstrably false, Shurjoka was warned out of court in June 2024. She did not file a declaration of injunctive relief, so we filed for a preliminary injunction for our client before the Regional Court of Hamburg. The Regional Court of Hamburg (Ref. 324 O 345/24) approved our application.

Confirmation on the merits of the matter — new conviction

Despite the clear prohibition in the preliminary injunction proceedings, Shurjoka decided to initiate the main proceedings, but without providing any new evidence or factual basis. Instead, their litigation was based on arguments that were sometimes irrelevant and did not convince the Regional Court of Hamburg.

In its judgment of November 15, 2024, the court confirmed the preliminary injunction in full. It referred to its preliminary ruling and stated once again that there was no evidence that our client had viewed child pornographic material. The allegations are fictitious and clearly serve to publicly discredit him.

It is therefore clear that Shurjoka is obliged to refrain from making the claim in future. Failure to comply may result in fines or custody.

conclusion

The Regional Court of Hamburg has sent a clear signal: Anyone who publicly accuses others of false statements of fact must be able to prove this, regardless of whether the statement is made on a talk show, a podcast or a Twitch stream. The blanket allegation that our client had “viewed child pornography” was not only untrue but also defamatory on a particularly serious scale.

We were able to enforce the complete omission both in preliminary injunction proceedings and in main proceedings. For our clients, this decision shows once again that violations of personal rights online are legally vulnerable, and with lasting effects.

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