Question juridique clé
Whether the appellants had standing as private complainants to appeal the acquittal under Bernese criminal procedure and OHG.
Solution extraite
The appellants were not directly injured in legally protected interests by genocide denial and therefore lacked standing to appeal.
Motifs extraits
The offense protects public peace as a collective legal good; any harm to individual interests is only indirect or mediated. The required direct injury under Art. 47 StrV/BE and Art. 2 OHG was therefore absent.