Utrecht: Community service for offending Muslims
A 60 year old from Nieuwegein (Utrecht) was sentenced for insulting Muslims Friday. The court in Utrecht gave him forty hours of community service and two weeks suspended sentence.
The judge also found the man guilty of threatening a member of the Amersfoort municipal council, reports the public prosecution. The man had written a councilor last February a letter saying: 'After the civil war you'll be specially hung'
In February this year the man turned his back on a Muslim woman who wanted to help him when he entered a pharmacy to get medicine. He said he thought it was revolting to look at 'them'. According to the public prosecutor he meant Muslims.
The court decided that 'offending a group based on religion' had been demonstrated in this case. Additionally the judge saw the mail to the Amersfoort councilor as a threat, though the man's lawyer argued that his client's statements should be seen as a warning.
The prosecution also suspected the 60 year old man of offending a group, since in March last year he sent mails to various member of the Dutch Protestant Church (PKN), in which he spoke about 'collaborators and traitors' and wrote 'you're not worthy of being called Christian' and 'PKN Christians, dogs and pigs'. In this case he was acquitted.
He also sent pictures of a woman who was half buried in the ground or a woman with a noose around her neck. The court thought these mails did not have a public character. The people who received them were a closed group, according to the judge. therefore the court decided that 'offending a group' had not been demonstrated.
Source: Trouw (Dutch)
A 60 year old from Nieuwegein (Utrecht) was sentenced for insulting Muslims Friday. The court in Utrecht gave him forty hours of community service and two weeks suspended sentence.
The judge also found the man guilty of threatening a member of the Amersfoort municipal council, reports the public prosecution. The man had written a councilor last February a letter saying: 'After the civil war you'll be specially hung'
In February this year the man turned his back on a Muslim woman who wanted to help him when he entered a pharmacy to get medicine. He said he thought it was revolting to look at 'them'. According to the public prosecutor he meant Muslims.
The court decided that 'offending a group based on religion' had been demonstrated in this case. Additionally the judge saw the mail to the Amersfoort councilor as a threat, though the man's lawyer argued that his client's statements should be seen as a warning.
The prosecution also suspected the 60 year old man of offending a group, since in March last year he sent mails to various member of the Dutch Protestant Church (PKN), in which he spoke about 'collaborators and traitors' and wrote 'you're not worthy of being called Christian' and 'PKN Christians, dogs and pigs'. In this case he was acquitted.
He also sent pictures of a woman who was half buried in the ground or a woman with a noose around her neck. The court thought these mails did not have a public character. The people who received them were a closed group, according to the judge. therefore the court decided that 'offending a group' had not been demonstrated.
Source: Trouw (Dutch)
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