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Wilders Trial to Continue as Court Rejects Defence Objections
NIS News
March 30, 2011
https://www.legal-project.org/1260/wilders-trial-to-continue-as-court-rejects
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THE HAGUE, 31/03/11 - The criminal case against MP Geert Wilders is going ahead as planned. The district court in Amsterdam yesterday rejected virtually all the technical objections put forward by Wilders' lawyer Bram Moszkowicz. On one point, however, he got his way.
The lawyer had wanted the Public Prosecutor's Office (OM) to be declared inadmissible, which would have meant the end of the court case. But the court ruled that the OM had the right to prosecute Wilders for incitement to hatred and discrimination and defamation of certain groups including Moroccans. The OM cannot however prosecute Wilders for comparisons that he has made between Islam and Fascism, according to the court.
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