For posting a crime scene photo of the massacre of a Jewish family on Facebook, a refugee from Syria stood trial on Monday.
The Palestinian had added a red heart emoji and the words “blessed feast of sacrifice” in Arabic to the picture. As he left the courtroom, he cheekily gave the finger!
Tiergarten District Court. Defendant: Musaab A. A. (24). Born in Syria. School up to grade 11. Summer 2015: He came to Europe via the Western Balkans. July 31, 2015 Application for asylum in Germany. Residence until December 15, 2019, subsidiary protection.
Two records in the German criminal register. March 2019 one year and three months suspended prison sentence (dangerous bodily harm, coercion). December 2019 fine for an anti-Israel graffiti (damage to property, 225 euros).
The charge was read out by a senior prosecutor from the “Central Hate Crime Unit”. This was set up in September 2020 to “prosecute prejudice-motivated crimes more effectively”. The reason for this is that racism, anti-Semitism and other forms of group-related misanthropy are repeatedly motives for committing crimes.
“This not only harms those affected, but also leads to collective intimidation of minorities in the public sphere,” the Berlin Attorney General’s Office states.
The accusation against the Syrian refugee: he had publicly advocated murder. On July 21, 2017, he posted a photo on his Facebook account of the massacre of a Jewish settler family in the West Bank (three dead, one seriously injured). The perpetrator – a Palestinian – was later sentenced to four terms of life imprisonment.
When investigations against the accused were underway in the summer of 2019, his mobile phone was seized. In it, the CID officers found the now incriminated Facebook entry from 2017.
The accused remains silent. His defence lawyer demands acquittal.
The judge sentences him for approving criminal offences and disturbing the public peace. The penalty: a warning! “The photo shows a blood-flooded kitchen room with a shoe,” says the judge. “People have been slaughtered there. Anyone who calls this a festival of sacrifice is mocking the victims.”
The warning is given under juvenile criminal law because the accused was 20 years and three months old at the time of the crime and not yet of age.
https://www.bz-berlin.de/tatort/menschen-vor-gericht/judenhasser-zeigte-im-gericht-den-stinkefinger