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Hungary | County Court of Miskolc (Miskolci Törvényszék) | 2013 | Hungary / County Court of Miskolc / Decision no. B.1725/2012/14 | Religion | Muslims | The defendant informed the authorities anonymously over the phone that bombs had been placed somewhere in town by his 'Muslim brothers', and that these Muslims would detonate the bombs unless the authorities released certain people from prison. The authorities soon realised that it was an empty threat, and that the defendant used the cover of the alleged 'Muslim brothers' as a decoy. | View more |
Italy | Criminal Court of Padua | 2013 | Italy / Criminal Court of Padua / Sentence no. 1615 | Race/Ethnicity, Race/Ethnicity | Foreigners | A female district council member from the Northern League party in the municipality of Padua, posted on her Facebook page the following comment, under a photo of the Minister of Integration Cecile Kyenge (who is of Congolese origin): “But is there no one there who could rape her, just to let her understand how a victim of such a ferocious crime could feel? Shame!”. The comment had been posted after reading a report on a blog alleging that an African man had attempted to rape an Italian woman. | View more |
Italy | Corte di cassazione | 2013 | Italy / Court of Cassation / 4879 | Race/Ethnicity, Race/Ethnicity | Muslims, Migrants, Third country nationals, Black people or of African origin | Two men were prosecuted for the crime of apology of fascism (promoting fascist ideology or symbols) and for being part of the group Milizia, which has among its aims, to instigate discrimination or violence on racial and ethnic grounds. They were subjected to security measures. | View more |
Italy | Italian Court of Cassation (Corte di Cassazione) | 2013 | Italy / Court of Cassation / Decision no. 33179/13 | Race/Ethnicity | Muslims, Migrants, Third country nationals, Black people or of African origin | The accused was the owner and manager of a website whose aim was to disseminate racist hate speech and violent discourse. He was charged for incitement to discrimination or violence based on racist grounds. According to him, this accusation is illegitimate because the website’s server is based in the USA and because the dissemination of such content on the Internet did not have the potential of creating a political group fostering racial hatred. He also stressed that he was only the manager of… | View more |
Luxembourg | Luxembourg District Court (Tribunal d'arrondissement) | 2013 | Luxembourg / District Court / Case no. 577/2013 / Judgement / The Public Prosecutor v. A, B, C, D | Religion, Race/Ethnicity | Refugees & asylum seekers, Muslims | This case differs from the general case law regarding incitement to hatred. The case concerns a defendant with a link to the extreme right movement who deliberately created a fake alias on a social media platform, pretending to be a foreigner attacking Luxembourg. He published threats and hate comments against Luxembourgish people, nation and language, with the aim to provoke a negative reaction and to incite hatred against foreigners and migrants. | View more |
Luxembourg | The Court of and in the Luxembourg arrondissement, court of first instance 16th chamber (Le Tribunal d’arrondissement de et à Luxembourg, seizième chambre correctionnelle) | 2013 | Luxembourg / Court of and in the Luxembourg arrondissement, court of first instance (16th chamber) / no. 17461/12/CD | Nationality, Race/Ethnicity | Refugees & asylum seekers | When RTL announced on its website that the Kehlen local authority would build a house for refugees, this led to a racial outburst on Facebook by Mrs G., Mr H., Mr I. And Mrs J. claiming that ‘they’ received everything and ‘we’ received nothing, even wishing the return of a Hitler-like persona, who would cleanse the country. | View more |
Malta | Criminal Court of Appeal | 2013 | Malta / Criminal Court of Appeal / 98/2011 / Judgement / Police vs Norman Lowell | Race/Ethnicity | Third country nationals | Mr Norman Lowell had been convicted of inciting racial hatred.Throughout the year 2006, Mr Lowell had given a number of speeches in Malta wherein he made use of abusive words and threatening language, including towards the then President of Malta. He also uploaded an article written by himself which allegedly constituted racial hatred. In the speeches and the online article, Mr Lowell made use of terms such as 'vicious Sudanese', he referred to Jews as 'parasites' and… | View more |
Spain | Supreme Court | 2013 | Spain / Supreme Court Contentious-Administrative court, Section 7 / STS 693/2013 | Religion, Gender | Muslims | In February 2013 the Supreme Court declared void a decision of the City Council of Lleida (Catalonia, Spain) in 2010 to prohibite people who wear the full veil (burka or niqab) from accessing or remaining in public spaces. The Watari Immigrants Association for Freedom and Justice (Asociación de Inmigrantes Watari por la Libertad y la Justicia) had previously appealed the decision of the City Council before the High Court of Justice of Catalonia which upheld the decision (Judgment 489/2011 of 7… | View more |
United Kingdom | The Central Criminal Court (Crown Court) | 2013 | United Kingdom / Central Criminal Court (Crown Court)/ Judgement / The Queen v. Pavlo Lapshyn | Religion | Muslims | Pavlo Lapshyn, a 24 year old Ukrainian engineering student on a working visa, was sentenced to minimum 40 years in prison for a murder and racially aggravated crimes. Just days after he arrived in the United Kingdom he stabbed Mohammed Saleem, 81, to death. He had also been planning a series of explosions at mosques in the United Kingdom. Within a period of less than two months he planted and detonated three improvised explosive devices in the vicinity of three mosques in Walsall, Wolverhampton… | View more |
France | Court of cassation (Cour de cassation) | 2013 |
France / Court of cassation / Decision No. 12-84790 ECLI:FR:CCASS:2013:CR03515 |
Race/Ethnicity | Migrants | On 20 September 2009, Mr. Z. and Mr. A. committed a violent assault on Mr. X, leading to his incapacity to work for over eight days. The investigating judge, after having charged the perpetrators with the offence of aggravated violence, in particular because of the membership of Mr. X . of a particular race, finally ordered them to be sent before the criminal court without retaining the aggravating circumstance. Mr. X. appealed this decision. The pre-trial chamber of the Toulouse Court of… | View more |
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