Two youths who shouted anti-Semitic remarks at a soccer game last month have been sentenced by a Rotterdan magistrate to visit sites in Holland associated with the Holocaust and write essays on their impressions. One must pay a fine.
The unusual punishment was imposed by Judge Rosa Lensink Bosman on the two young men, aged 20 and 21, who are fans of the Utrecht Football Club. During a match with the Excelsior Club in Rotterdam, they shouted “All Jews in the camp must be killed” and other anti-Semitic epithets. Both claimed in court that they were drunk at the time and admitted that they know little or nothing of what happened during the Nazi occupation of Holland.
One was sentenced to visit the site of the Westerbrook camp in The Netherlands where Dutch and other Jews were herded for transportation to death camps in eastern Europe. The other must visit the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and contribute 250 Guilders (about $100) to the Anne Frank Foundation. Both must send their essays to the sentencing magistrate.
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