A right-wing extremist must pay a fine of nearly $3,000 for calling German Jewish leader Michel Friedman a “Gypsy-Jew.” Hermann Reichertz, a former member of Germany’s far-right Republican Party, used the term in a pamphlet distributed in November.
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