(NL Times) Deputy Prime Minister Mona Keijzer will not be prosecuted for saying that “hatred of Jews is almost part of the culture” in Islamic countries, the Amsterdam Court of Appeal ruled in a procedure trying to force prosecution. The BBB minister of housing now wants the Public Prosecution Service (OM) to clear her name, she told the Telegraaf.
Keijzer made her statement on the talk show Sophie & Jeroen on May 17th last year, before she was sworn in as minister. In July, the OM dropped the case against her, saying that Keijzer was “in principle guilty” of group insult, but prosecution would be too much of an infringement of the right to freedom of expression for politicians.
An Afghan refugee living in the Netherlands took the matter to court, asking the court to force prosecution through an Article 12 procedure. The court now ruled against prosecuting Keijzer.
