Going by your description of the statute (lawsuits, suing), this is entirely a civil issue and not criminal at all. Am I mistaken? Or am I coming at this from

Going by your description of the statute (lawsuits, suing), this is entirely a civil issue and not criminal at all. Am I mistaken? Or am I coming at this from a presumptuous vantage point of Anglo-American jurisprudence and missing some subtlety of German law?