(AFP) A Dutch man will appear in court on insult charges after tearing up a Koran outside parliament and likening Islam’s holy book to Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” prosecutors said Tuesday.
Edwin Wagensveld, 54, who heads the Netherlands’s chapter of the German anti-Islam group Pegida, carried out the protest in The Hague in January, Dutch media said.
Prosecutors had said in April that they opened a criminal investigation into a 54-year-old Dutch citizen living in Germany over the incident, which sparked anger in the Muslim world.
“The Public Prosecution Service has decided to summon the suspect,” prosecutors said in a tweet on Tuesday. “He is due to appear in court on August 10.”
