Wilders is going to court to speak to in case ‘fewer Moroccans’ – NU.nl

That twitters Wilders Monday during the trial for his ruling.

Wilders said previously is not present at the hearings in the process. The politician, that his declaration of the title ‘No one will see me silenced’, says that the process a case is against the freedom of expression.

“the Netherlands has a mega-Moroccans-problem and I did nothing wrong said. If these words is a crime, then the Netherlands is not free, but a dictatorship. I find that in the Room needs to be discussed and not in the courts. Therefore, I will not be present”, Wilders said earlier.

‘Acquittal’

Wilders’ defence counsel Geert-Jan Knoops has Monday opposite the court said that, in his eyes, “a hard acquittal is a given” in the process. For a convicted groepsbelediging and the incitement to hatred and discrimination exists, according to him, no ground.

With his offending remarks Wilders made according to Knoops, the nationality referred to and not the race or other characteristics such as skin color, language, or religion. Therefore, there is no question of discrimination on grounds of race. Moroccans are not a race, says Knoops. Berber can, for instance, as will be seen.

According to the Public prosecution service (OM) to Moroccans as a breed to be considered. Knoops believes that the concepts of ‘nationality’ and ‘national origin’ wrongly by the other.

Fragments

In the Judicial Complex Schiphol in Badhoevedorp let Knoops fragments of tv programs, in which attention was paid to criminal Moroccan youth. It was the population, by name, and mentions. “The problem is by mr Wilders appointed, but exists already for 25 years.”

According to Knoops would Wilders have reached the same conclusion “as the Swedes or the Canadians had gone”.

Wilders has criticism had on Moroccans, as the Labour party politicians such as Diederik Samsom and Hans S that also have done. In those cases, was that criticism of Moroccan young people admitted. “It speaks with two tongues,” said the counselor. In the utterances of Samson, and S is then take into account the context in which utterances are made. There is now, erroneously, to have gone, Knoops.

In his case he was referring to a criminal case against the imam El Moumni, who in 2002 was acquitted because the insult of homosexuals. According to the court in The Hague referred to the imam himself was on the qur’an and the words of the prophet Muhammad.

According to the strafpleiter are the words of Wilders in line with the PVV-the party. “If an imam can rely on the qur’an and the context quite a broad interpretation,” said Knoops, “then it is fair to in the case of Wilders also to look at the partijstandpunten of the PVV.”

Fine

It demanded last week to 5,000 euro fine against Wilders because of groepsbelediging and the incitement to hatred and discrimination. Knoops will the court acquittal or dismissal of prosecution questions, he announced. Wilders has called the demand “insane”. “Freedom of expression is at stake”.

By: ANP/NU.en