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Luxembourg | Administrative Tribunal of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (fourth chamber)[Tribunal administratif du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg (4e chambre)] | 2022 | Luxembourg/Administrative Tribunal of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg /N° 44025 | Religion | Muslims | On the 5th of November 2019, the Director-General of the public company POST Luxembourg applied a disciplinary sanction of revocation to a worker who was considered guilty, among others, of harassing, discriminating and disrespecting and external employee of the company. The worker lodged an appeal on the 15th of January 2020 seeking the alteration or, in the alternative, the annulment of the decision from the Director-General. Following an assessment of the credibility of the facts, the… | View more |
Luxembourg | First Instance Court of Luxembourg City (nineteenth chamber) [Tribunal d’arrondissement de Luxembourg (dix-neuvième chambre)] | 2022 | Luxembourg/First Instance Court of Luxembourg City/no. 1551/2022 | Religion | Third country nationals | On the 7th of February 2020, the Anti-Terrorist Section of the Judicial Police Service was informed of the existence of several comments on Facebook which contained xenophobic remarks. The comments were related to an article from «LEQUOTIDIEN.LU» shared by a user on his Facebook page. The investigation later revealed that the Facebook profile associated with the comments belonged to the defendant. In his comments, the defendant declared that Muslims were scum, adding emoticons such as "… | View more |
Luxembourg | First Instance Court of Luxembourg City (nineteenth chamber) [Tribunal d’arrondissement de Luxembourg (dix-neuvième chambre)] | 2022 | Luxembourg/First Instance Court of Luxembourg City/no. 1005/2022 | Race/Ethnicity | refugees & asylum seekers | On the 6th of July 2019, the Anti-Terrorist Section of the Judicial Police Service was informed of the existence of a comment on Facebook which contained xenophobic remarks. The comment related to an article published on the Facebook page of «RTL Lëtzebuerg». The investigation later revealed that the Facebook profile associated with the comment belonged to the defendant. The comment read “In my younger years I was stationed in Saudi Arabi, in Libya and in Bahrein. These people are not like us,… | View more |
Luxembourg | Police Court of Luxembourg City (tribunal de police de Luxembourg) | 2021 | Luxembourg/Police Court of Luxembourg City/no. 278/21 | Religion | Third country nationals | On the 7th of November 2019, the Judicial Police Service was informed of the existence of an online comment relating to an article published on the website of a company. The investigation later revealed that the profile associated with the comment belonged to the defendant. In his comment, the defendant declared that one should not trust the Muslims in general, for they live ISLAM, which translates as subjugation, meaning that the only goal of Muslims is to submit those in the West to their… | View more |
Luxembourg | Court of Appeal (fifth chamber) [Cour d'appel (cinquième chambre)] | 2020 | Luxembourg / Court of Appeal / no. 87/20 V. | Migrant status | refugees & asylum seekers | On 8 September 2015 the Minister of Family and Integration published on Facebook a photo of herself surrounded by Syrian refugees with a comment explaining that a Syrian mother had asked her if her children could attend school in Luxembourg as it was important that her children could have future prospects. Through the BeeSecure platform the police were notified about the following comment underneath the Minister’s social media post: “... you should rather explain why our children are… | View more |
Luxembourg | Administrative Court (Tribunal Administratif du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg) | 2019 | Luxembourg / Administrative Court of Luxembourg (3rd Chamber) / Case no. 40948 | Religion | Muslims | A Luxembourgish citizen of Muslim religion submitted her application for the renewal of her driving license with a passport photo with her head covered by a veil. The administrative authority informed her that the processing of her request was only possible if she submits a complete application, namely, an application containing a 45/35 cm passport type photo on which her head is uncovered. The applicant, after several exchanges of letters with the authorities, decided to challenge the decision… | View more |
Luxembourg | Court of Cassation (Cour de Cassation) | 2017 | Luxembourg / Court of Cassation / Case no. 58/2017 (3868) | Religion, Race/Ethnicity | Muslims, Migrants | Between October and November 2015, the accused distributed flyers in several municipalities in Luxembourg containing hate speech messages inciting to hatred against foreigners living in Luxembourg. Migrants in general, and Muslims in particular, were accused of destroying the country and its natural resources, negatively affecting Luxembourgish citizens' rights and living conditions. These groups were also accused of being responsible for the "end" of the Luxembourgish school… | View more |
Luxembourg | Luxembourg Court of Appeal (Cour d'appel) | 2017 | Luxembourg / Court of Appeal (10th Chamber) / Case no. 304/17 | Migrant status | Refugees & asylum seekers | On 14 October 2015 the accused, via his social media profile, commented on an article from a newspaper about a former military site (Ordensburg Vogelsang). The article said that "In this ex-Nazi-Ordensburg, Cologne will bring 900 refugees to Germany" and "In Cologne refugees are to be accommodated in the area of the former National Socialist Ordensburg. 900 people should be staying in a single floor...” The accused posted the following comment: "Vogelsang is actually a… | View more |
Luxembourg | Luxembourg District Court (Tribunal d'arrondissement) | 2017 | Luxembourg / District Court (Correctional Chamber) / Case no. 2065/2017 | Religion | Muslims | An anonymous reporting on 22 September 2016 through the Bee Secure Stopline platform has made the police authorities aware of a comment posted by the defendant via her Facebook account. The comment was made in respect of an article that related to a German railway agent who had been insulted and threatened of being thrown off the train by some illegal passengers during a check of tickets. The defendant’s comment, in a rather confused Luxembourgish language, indicated that she had been looking… | View more |
Luxembourg | Luxembourg District Court (Tribunal d'arrondissement) | 2017 | Luxembourg / District Court (16th Chamber) / Case no. 3257/2017 | Religion, Migrant status | Migrants, Refugees & asylum seekers | In September 2015, violent comments were posted about two articles concerning the refuge crisis that have been shared on the Facebook page of Radio Latina, a Portuguese-speaking radio station in Luxembourg. One was about an NGO worker being outraged by the comments of incitement to hatred on Facebook. The other was about Differdange, a city in Luxembourg, being open to welcome up to 60 refugees. On these articles, a number of people expressed their opinions: “when they start beheading and… | View more |
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