Retrial of Karl Meissner, national leader of the neo-Nazi Deutsche Bloc, has been ordered by the Federal Supreme Court, which has reversed an acquittal order handed down by the Munich District Court last September.
The Society for Christians and Jews had originally brought a complaint against Meissner for remarks he had made in a speech, declaring that “Brotherhood Week” should be considered ‘a week of repulsiveness.” The Munich court held that the remarks were not slanderous to Jewish people. Now the Supreme Court, in ordering a new trial, has held that Meissner’s statements must be judged in the context of his party’s program which, according to the court, follows “National Socialist ideology.”
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