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Belgium | Luxembourg Criminal Court (Tribunal correctionnel du Luxembourg) | 2020 | Belgium / Tribunal correctionnel du Luxembourg / Trib.corr.Lux., 22-10-2020 | Race/Ethnicity | Muslims | The case concerns online incitement to hatred and violence. More concretely, it concerns two individuals who were responsible for a website and a Facebook group related to an identarian group from the Ardennes region. In these online platforms, multiple texts or images inciting to hatred or violence against Muslims were published. | View more |
Belgium | Tribunal of First Instance of Brugge (Rechtbank van Eerste Aanleg te Brugge) | 2015 | Belgium / Tribunal of First Instance of Brugge / BG43.L5.5987-12 -DJ | Race/Ethnicity, Race/Ethnicity | Migrants | In 2015, the Tribunal of Bruges convicted a person for incitement to hatred based on the victim's ethnic origin. The victim, a migrant, was assaulted by two men and racially insulted by a third person. On the basis of the police report of the incident, the Tribunal considered that the accused intended to incite hatred. | View more |
Belgium | Tribunal of First Instance of Brussels (Tribunal de première instance de Bruxelles) | 2016 | Belgium / Tribunal of First Instance of Brussels | Nationality | Third country nationals | In 2016, the Tribunal of Brussels convicted a person for incitement to hatred and violence based on the victim's nationality. The accused had posted public messages on Facebook containing racist insults towards the Turkish victim and her son and calling for her murder. The Tribunal considered that mere insults do not constitute incitement to hatred; however, in this case, the call for murder demonstrated there was an intent to incite violence. | View more |
Belgium | Tribunal of First Instance of East-Flanders section Gent (Rechtbank van eerste aanleg Oost-Vlanderen afdeling Gent) | 2015 | Belgium / Tribunal of First Instance of East-Flanders section Gent/ GE56.L2.3657/14/sw3 | Religion | Muslims | In 2015, the Tribunal of Gent convicted a man for harassment and discrimination because he ordered and distributed flyers, the painting of slogans on the road, and the hanging up of posters with discriminatory messages such as "STOP ISLAM", "NO JIHAD IN OUR STREET" and "STOP THE RITUAL HALAL SLAUGHTER = 100% BARBARIC". The defendant invoked his freedom of expression, but the Tribunal argued that such freedom is limited by the respect of the constitutional freedoms… | View more |
Belgium | Tribunal of First Instance of Gent(Rechtbank van Eerste Aanleg te Gent), | 2016 | Belgium / Tribunal of First Instance of Gent | Race/Ethnicity | Third country nationals | In 2016, the Tribunal of Gent convicted a person for incitement to hatred. After fighting with a Somalian man, the accused shouted various racist insults such as "dirty black" and "go back to your country" while the Somalian man was describing his account of the event to a policeman. The tribunal considered that the accused clearly had the intent to incite bystanders to violence and hatred towards the victim. | View more |
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