A neo-Nazi man has been sentenced to five years in jail on charges he tried to kill a man who had beaten him because of his neo-Nazism and his distribution of neo-Nazi propaganda.
The district court in Leeuwarden, the capital of the province of Friesland, sentenced the 21-year-old man for the Jan. 23 attack.
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