A German court sentenced a neo-Nazi to prison for defaming a Jewish leader and threatening to kill a policeman. Gunter Deckert, 58, who called German Jewish leader Ignatz Bubis a “Jewish fuhrer,” was sentenced to four years and nine months.
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