Resumen de Netherlands: Man acquitted of insulting Muslims during television documentary
On 9 March 2016, a 37-year-old man was acquitted of insulting Muslims by the Amsterdam Court of Appeal. The man made his statements in a documentary about the Dutch politician Geert Wilders from the Partij voor de Vrijheid - (Party for Freedom, PVV) in 2010. The makers of the documentary wanted to investigate the motives of Geert Wilders and his followers. One of the interviewees was the defendant, who was presented as a follower of Geert Wilders. In the interview he spoke about Arabs as “fervent ass crashers” (fervent kontenbonkers), who also “fuck young boys”. According to him this is “normal in their culture”. The Court believed that the defendant meant Muslims when he talked about Arabs, so the man stood trial for publicly and intentionally insulting Muslims on the ground of their religion, under Article 137c of the Dutch Penal Code (Sr) (see IRIS 2009-3/109).
