Antwerp: Dewinter claims Islamization, could face fine for privacy violations

Antwerp: Dewinter claims Islamization, could face fine for privacy violations


The Expatica headline of this article was "Far-right Belgian could face massive fine for Mecca slur". However, the fine is not due to a 'slur' but to violating the anti-racism privacy law.

Via Expatica:

A far-right Belgian leader who posted names and addresses of 770 residents on the web in a bid to prove "Islamisation" was at work in the city of Antwerp could face a 500,000-euro fine for racism.

Filip Dewinter, leader of Vlaams Belang (which means Flemish Interest), said on his website that the official registry of residents of an Antwerp suburb "includes only 21 Flemish names".

"All the other names are African or North African. This mind-boggling list symbolises the Islamisation of entire districts of Antwerp and elsewhere," he said.

Dewinter, who has a seat in the regional parliament of Flanders, dubbed the district in question "Mecca-on-Escaut", the latter being the river that runs through the northern city.

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A commission for the protection of privacy filed a complaint Thursday against him before the Antwerp prosecutor's office, alleging violation of a 1992 law banning the publication of private information "based on racial or ethnic origin".

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