(NL Times) Two people will face a criminal court hearing on accusations that they tried to get others to commit acts of violence against a secondary school teacher for his use of a cartoon in support of the controversial French satire magazine, Charlie Hebdo, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) [said]. The two Rotterdammers, now aged 20 and 22, will be prosecuted on suspicion of inciting violence or criminal acts when the incident happened more than two years ago.
The teacher at the Emmauscollege had placed a copy of a Joep Bertram cartoon on a bulletin board at the secondary school in November 2020. The image was of a decapitated person wearing a Charlie Hebdo shirt who was sticking their tongue out at a jihadist. Bertram created the cartoon in response to the terrorist assault on the Charlie Hebdo editorial office in Paris that left 12 dead and 11 injured.
