Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker asks for exclusion of hatred debate case
Dutch far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) personality Geert Wilders answers questions during a Reuters talk in Budapest, Hungary, Jun 24, 2016, after Britain voted to leave a European Union in a EU BREXIT referendum. PHOTO: REUTERS
AMSTERDAM: A counsel for Dutch politician Geert Wilders on Friday argued for exclusion of hatred debate charges brought opposite a distant right lawmaker for job for a rebate in a series of Moroccans in a Netherlands.
Wilders, who now leads in polls forward of inhabitant elections scheduled for Mar 15, faces a excellent of adult to 7,400 euros and a year in jail for taste and inciting injustice for televised 2014 remarks that also enclosed job Moroccans “scum.”
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In a pretrial hearing, counsel Geert-Jan Knoops called for early exclusion of a suit, observant Wilders’ remarks were stable by leisure of debate laws, that he pronounced should be interpreted liberally when they are partial of domestic discourse. Judges pronounced they did not design to confirm on either a box might ensue until Nov during a earliest.
Wilders, who campaigns on an anti-Islam, anti-immigrant platform, was clear of hatred debate charges in 2011 for several remarks including job for a anathema on a Koran, that he alike with Hitler’s’ “Mein Kampf” and for observant that “Muslim criminals” should be nude of their Dutch nationality and deported.
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