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Subject: WILDERS SUMMONED TO TRIAL

Wilders summoned to trial

by Lawrence Auster at
View from the Right, “the right blog for the right”

The Office of Public Prosecutor in Amsterdam
has summoned Geert Wilders to appear in court
on 20th. January 2010
to face criminal trial for:

“Inciting hatred and discrimination
against Muslims due to their religion
and
inciting hatred and discrimination
against non-Western immigrants due to their race.”

The indictment, which is extremely long,
and Wilders’s response,
which is short, are posted at Jihad Watch.

The moment of decision has come.

Under the liberal regime of non-discrimination, do Westerners have the right to state the self-evident truth that Islam is a danger to the West?

Or will they be indicted and tried as criminals for saying so?

And if the latter, then the defenders of the West, at least in Europe, Canada, and Australia where there is no equivalent of the First Amendment, will be forced to become outlaws.

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Geert Wilders receives summons: a sledgehammer blow to the freedom of speech

A statement on the Wilders trial:

The 20th of January 2010 will be a crucial day for defending our freedom. This is the day when the political trial against Geert Wilders will start. Yesterday, Geert Wilders was summoned by the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) on behalf of the Court of Justice of Amsterdam. The indictment reads: group insult of Muslims, incitement to hatred and discrimination against Muslims due to their religion and incitement to hatred and discrimination against non-western immigrants and / or Moroccans due to their race.

Geert Wilders: “On the 20th of January 2010, a political trial will start. I am being prosecuted for my political convictions. The freedom of speech is on the verge of collapsing. If a politician is not allowed to criticise an ideology anymore, this means that we are lost, and it will lead to the end of our freedom. However I remain combative: I am convinced that I will be acquitted.”

In earlier stages, the PPS did not see any reason to prosecute Mr. Wilders.

Bram Moszkowicz, the lawyer on the case at hand, has submitted a notice of objection to the summons on the point of group insult on behalf of Geert Wilders. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands ruled that even though it is indeed punishable to insult a group of people, it is not punishable to insult a religion as such. Due to this the order of the Court of Amsterdam on this point is deemed incorrect.

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SUMMONS OF THE ACCUSED



To: name: Wilders


first names: Geert


born on: 06 September 1963 in Venlo

residing in: 2513 AA The Hague


address: Binnenhof 1 A






I hereby summon you to on Wednesday 20 January 2010 at 09:00 o’clock appear as the accused at the hearing of the three-judge criminal division in the district of Amsterdam, Parnassusweg 220, in order to be tried on that which is specified below.






I refer to the notices under 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 on the reverse side of this page.






A notice of objection submitted by you will be handled on the date and time as specified in the summons. In case of dismissal the Court can directly proceed with deliberation of the case.






The Public Prosecutor


[illegible signature]










The aforementioned summoned person is charged with the fact that






1. he, on one or more dates in or about the period from 8 August 2007 up to and including 27 March 2008, in The Hague and/or Amsterdam and/or (elsewhere in) the Netherlands, on multiple occasions, at least once, (each time) in public, orally, in writing or through images, intentionally offended a group of people, i.e. Muslims, based on their religion, by (each time) intentionally in


– De Volkskrant and/or


– on the internet on the website http://www.liveleak.com (in the film Fitna)


placing (having placed) and/or showing (having showed) and/or having heard one or more texts and/or images and/or footage and/or audio fragments with the following content:






(De Volkskrant of 8 August 2007, ‘Enough is enough: prohibit the Quran’)






‘A moderate Islam does not exist. It does not exist because there is no distinction between Good Islam and Bad Islam. There is Islam and that is it. And Islam means the Quran and nothing but the Quran. And the Quran is the Mein Kampf of a religion that intends to eliminate others and that refers to those others – non-Muslims – as unfaithful dogs, inferior beings. Read the Quran, this Mein Kampf, again. In whatever version, you will see that all the evil that the sons of Allah commit to us and themselves originates from this book (Oriana Fallaci, The Force of Reason, post-script, page 305, February 2006).’






and/or






‘The core of the problem is the fascist Islam, the sick ideology of Allah and Mohammed as laid down in the Islamic Mein Kampf: the Quran. The texts from the Quran leave little to imagination.’






and/or






‘Prohibit this miserable book the way Mein Kampf was also prohibited!’






and/or






‘I have enough of the Quran in the Netherlands: prohibit this fascist book.’






and/or






(The film Fitna, placed on http://www.liveleak.com on 27 March 2008)






‘Islam wants to control, subdue and is out for the destruction of our Western civilisation. In 1945 Nazism was beaten in Europe. In 1989 communism was beaten in Europe. Now the Islamic ideology must be beaten. Stop the Islamisation. Defend our freedom.’






(Article 137c of the Dutch Criminal Code)






2. he, on one or more dates in or about the period from 7 October 2006 up to and including 27 March 2008, in The Hague and/or Amsterdam and/or (elsewhere in) the Netherlands, on multiple occasions, at least once, (each time) in public, orally, in writing or through images, incited to hatred of people, i.e. Muslims, based on their religion, by (each time) in


– De Volkskrant and/or


– De Pers and/or


– Dagblad De Limburger-Limburgs Dagblad and/or


on the internet


– on the website http://www.geenstijl.nl and/or http://www.pvv.nl and/or


– on the website of Radio Nederland Wereldomroep and/or the Wereldomroep and/or


– on the website http://www.liveleak.com (in the film Fitna)


placing (having placed) and/or showing (having showed) and/or having heard one or more texts and/or images and/or footage and/or audio fragments with the following content:






(De Volkskrant of 7 October 2006, ‘The Pope is completely right’)






‘The borders are closed to all non-Western immigrants the same day.’






and/or






‘The demographic composition of the population is the biggest problem of the Netherlands. I am talking about what comes to the Netherlands and what reproduces here. If you look at the figures and the development therein* Muslims will move from the big cities to the country. We must stop the tsunami of the Islamisation. This hits us in the heart, in our identity, in our culture. If we do not defend ourselves all other points from my programme will appear to be useless.’






and/or






‘Of course. 99 percent of the people who came to live there are of an Islamic origin.’






and/or






‘Absolutely. The figures show this. One out of five Moroccan youngsters is registered with the police as a suspect. Their behaviour derives from their religion and culture. You cannot consider these two facts separately. The other day the Pope was completely right: the Islam is a violent religion. Islam means submission and conversion of non-Muslims. This interpretation rules in the living rooms of these problematic youngsters, in the mosques. It has been embedded in this community itself.’






and/or






‘Everybody adapts to our dominant culture. Who does not do so will no longer be here in twenty years time. They will be deported.’






and/or






‘We have a gigantic problem with Muslims, in every respect it is going too far, and we present solutions that cannot even get a mouse to come out of its hole.’






and/or






‘Those Moroccan boys are really violent. They beat up people because of their sexual orientation. I have never used violence.’






and/or






‘Of this tsunami of a culture foreign to us that becomes ever more dominant here. This must be stopped.’






and/or






(Internet column ‘Mohammed (part II): the Islamic invasion’ of 6 February 2007, on the website of http://www.geenstijl.nl and/or the website http://www.pvv.nl)






‘In the Nederlands Dagblad of last Saturday Professor Ralphael Israeli is also quoted who predicts a “Third Islamic Invasion of Europe” by means of “penetration, propaganda, conversion and demographic changes”. In his eyes the Europeans are even committing “demographic suicide” with the advancing Islam. The first Islamic invasion was stopped at Poitiers in the year 732 after the conquest of Spain, Portugal and the south of France and the second invasion attempt by the Ottoman Turks as stopped before the gates of Vienna where they were, fortunately, beaten in 1683. According to Prof. Israeli the third invasion attempt that is now going on in Europe has a much bigger change of success.






The man is absolutely right. The Muslim population doubles with every generation – 25 years – and the number of Islamics in each and every European country is taking disturbing forms.’






and/or






‘The Netherlands as Islamic mission country. If a terrorist like Mohammed B. could yet not be stopped, the tactics of penetration, propaganda, conversion and demographic change will indeed prove to be successful if the cowardly political elite from VVD to PvdA and from SP to CDA and their European equivalents continue to remain silent about it and denounce and demonise those who are not. There is enough Islam in Europe and in the Netherlands. The PVV will oppose this third Islamic invasion attempt with man and might.’






and/or






(De Pers of 13 February 2007, ‘What is driving Geert Wilders?’)






‘We want enough. Close the borders, no more Islamics in the Netherlands, many Muslims deported from the Netherlands, denaturalisation of Islamic criminals.’






and/or






‘It is the facts. The Islam is a violent religion. If Mohammed would be alive here today the Lower House would immediately agree to hunt him out of the country.’


and/or






‘Former chief of the Mossad Efraim Halevy says that the Third World War has already started. I am not putting these words in my mouth, but it is correct though.’






and/or






‘I have good intentions. We let something happen as a result of which this becomes a totally different society. I am well aware that in a few decades there will not be an Islamic majority yet. But it is growing. With aggressive elements, imperialism. Just take a walk down the street and look what it is bringing us. You feel that you are no longer living in your own country. A fight is going on and we must defend ourselves. Soon there will be more mosques than churches!’






and/or






(De Volkskrant of 8 August 2007, ‘Wilders: prohibit the Quran, also in mosque’)






‘A prohibition is a prohibition. Hence not only the sale but also the use in mosques and possession at home must be punished. If this is not possible in the current legislation then a new prohibitory provision must be created.’






and/or






‘This book incites to hatred and murder, and does therefore not fit in our legal system. If Muslims want to participate they must renounce this Quran. I understand this is much to ask, but we must stop making concessions.’






and/or






(De Volkskrant of 8 August 2007, ‘Enough is enough: prohibit the Quran’)






‘A moderate Islam does not exist. It does not exist because there is no distinction between Good Islam and Bad Islam. There is Islam and that is it. And Islam means the Quran and nothing but the Quran. And the Quran is the Mein Kampf of a religion that intends to eliminate others and that refers to those others – non-Muslims – as unfaithful dogs, inferior beings. Read the Quran, this Mein Kampf, again. In whatever version, you will see that all the evil that the sons of Allah commit to us and themselves originates from this book (Oriana Fallaci, The Force of Reason, post-script, page 305, February 2006).’






and/or






‘The core of the problem is the fascist Islam, the sick ideology of Allah and Mohammed as laid down in the Islamic Mein Kampf: the Quran. The texts from the Quran leave little to imagination.’






and/or


‘Prohibit this miserable book the way Mein Kampf was also prohibited!’






and/or






‘I am so ashamed of all those in- and outside of the government and the Lower House who refuse to stop the Islamic invasion of the Netherlands. I am so ashamed of Dutch politics where the overrepresentation of members of ethnic minorities in crime and criminality is accepted day in day out without an answer to it.’






and/or






‘The Hague is filled with cowardly folks. Scared people who were born cowardly and will die cowardly. Who feel and stimulate that the Dutch culture is founded on a Jewish-Christian-Islamic tradition. Who issue a general pardon to liars and criminals.’






and/or






‘Who do not give a damn about the interests of the Dutch citizens and cooperate in the transformation of the Netherlands into Netherabia as a province of the Islamic super state Eurabia.’






and/or






‘I have had enough of the Islam in the Netherlands: no more Muslim immigrants. I have had enough of the adoration of Allah and Mohammed in the Netherlands: no more mosques. I have had enough of the Quran in the Netherlands: prohibit this fascist book.






Enough is enough.’






and/or






(‘Wilders wants a renewed mini Quran’ of 7 September 2007 on the website of Radio Nederland Wereldomroep and/or the Wereldomroep via the link: http://static.rnw.nl/migratie/www.wereldomroep.nl/actua/nl/nederlandsepolitiek/070909wildersintvw-redirected)






‘This kind of renewed version would be desirable, according to the PVV leader; a Quran deprived of all vindictive verses. “It should actually have the format of a Donald Duck”, according to Wilders.’






and/or






(De Limburger of 9 February 2008, ‘Islam is my Fitna’)






‘I point to the role which the horrible Quran plays in the Islamisation of our society.’






and/or






‘In the film I illustrate texts and verses from the Quran with documentary images that demonstrate that the Quran is not a dead letter but the face of the Islam: a huge threat.’






and/or






(De Volkskrant of 11 February 2008, ‘It no longer has any use, but The Film will be there’)






‘In the GPD interview he explains that he will illustrate texts and verses from the Quran with documentary images. He wants to, by way of example, demonstrate that the Quran is not ” a dead letter but the face of the Islam: a huge threat”.’






and/or






(The film Fitna, placed on http://www.liveleak.com on 27 March 2008)






The film starts with a black image with the text: “Warning: this film contains very shocking material”. Then the sound of a match being lighted can be heard and a book with oriental looking symbols is opened up that looks like the Quran. On the first page a cartoon can be seen of Mohammed with a bomb in his turban. The sound of a burning fuse can be heard. A clock appears that starts counting down from 15:00.






A page of the book is turned over. Two open pages can be seen. On the page on the right the following text appears: “Quran, Surah 8, verse 60”. Then on the page on the left appears: “Surah 8. Verse 60: Prepare for them whatever force and cavalry ye are able of gathering, to strike terror, to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies, of Allah and your enemies”. A voice can also be heard which (most likely) sings this text in the Arabic language. On the page on the right, next to the text, footage of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York (09/11/2001) are shown as well as of the attacks by Muslim extremists in Madrid and London with footage of the victims. This footage is alternated with footage of apparent imams who say: “What makes Allah happy? Allah is happy if non-Muslims are being killed” and “Destroy the unbelievers and polytheists, your (Allah’s) enemies and the enemies of the religion. Allah, count them and kill them up to the very last of them. And do not spare a single one”.






The page is turned. Now the page on the right states: “Quran, Surah 4, verse 56” and on the page on the left: “Surah 4, verse 56: Those who reject our signs, we shall soon cast into the fire: as often as their skins are roasted through, we shall change them for fresh skins, that they may taste the penalty: for Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise”. Then footage follows of a man who yells: “If Allah permits us, oh nation of Mohammed, even the stone will say Oh Muslim. A Jew is hiding behind me, come and cut off his head. And we shall cut off his head! By Allah, we shall cut it off! Oh Jews! Allah Akbar! (Allah is Great!). Jihad for the sake of Allah! Jihad for the sake of Allah! Victory to Allah! Allah Akbar! (Allah is Great!)”.






Then footage is shown of a young girl wearing a headscarf who is asked by a person off-screen who the Jews are. The little girl answers: “They are apes and pigs”. The voice says: “Are they apes and pigs? Says who?” The little girl says: “Allah”. The voice asks: “Where did he say this?” The little girl answers: “In the Quran”. The following footage shows a mass of people who are dragging corpses behind them. The following footage again shows images of the attacks in London showing, among other things, an exploded red double-decker bus. Then footage follows of apparently an imam who calls outs: “The Jews are Jews. They are the ones who must be butchered and killed”. These stills are intertwined with stills of Muslims (as follows from the headscarves and facial covering worn by one of the female persons) who show texts on signs: “Be prepared for the real Holocaust” and “God bless Hitler”. Then footage of a group of people in uniform who are lined up follows, apparently fighters who are standing with extended right arm (apparently bringing the Hitler salute).






A page is turned. On the new page the following text appears: “Quran, Surah 47, verse 4” and then: “Surah 47, verse 4: Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers in fight, smite at their necks; At length, when ye have thoroughly subdued them, bind a bond firmly on them”. A voice can also be heard which (probably) presents this text in the Arabic language. Then a newspaper article is shown of the murder of Theo van Gogh. A fragment of an interview with Theo van Gogh can be heard where he says, among other things: “I do not think that bullet will come for me!”. A picture of a male person appears who looks like Mohammed B. who has been convicted of the murder of Theo van Gogh. On screen appears: Mohammed B. Immediately thereafter an audio fragment in which the voice of Mohammed B. can be heard who says: “If I had the opportunity, if I would be free, and I had the opportunity to do it again, what I did on 2 November, I would have done exactly the same”. Footage appears of people who yell: “Learn from Theo van Gogh. Learn from the examples you can see! Because you pay with your blood!” and also footage of people with bloody knives. A newspaper article is shown with the header: “Hirsi Ali and Wilders into hiding. Death list. Targets in letter of Mohammed B.”. A fragment can also be seen of, as can be seen on screen, a Saudi TV station, Iqra TV, where a person says: “Houses and young men must be sacrificed, throats must be cut and skulls must be crushed. This is the road to victory”. Stills are shown of people wearing balaclavas and holding firearms. In between them they hold a man who is apparently their prisoner. The person wearing a balaclava in the middle reads a statement out loud. Then the masked men move to cut off the head of the prisoner. The beheading itself can (barely) not be seen. Yet the audio of the fragment remains audible. Sounds can be heard that apparently point to the beheading. After a few seconds the footage returns and one of the masked men can be seen holding the cut-off head of the prisoner up.






A page is turned again. On the new page can be read: “Quran, Surah 4, verse 89” and then: “Surah 4, verse 89: They but wish that ye should reject faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing as they, so take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah. But if they turn renegades, seize them and kill them wherever ye find them, and take no friends or helpers from their ranks”. A voice can also be heard which (probably) presents the text in the Arabic language. The text is followed by footage of Arabic looking people who state the following: “The Islam is a sacred religion. The best religion there is. If somebody converts to Christianity he deserves the death penalty”. Another person says: “The Islam is superior compared to the Jews, the Christians, the Buddhists and the Hindus. The only law recognised by Allah is the Islam. And he who pursues anything other but the Islam shall never be accepted”. The following newspaper headlines appear on screen: “Former Muslim Jami molested”, “Islamic witch hunt again threatens”, “Death to Rushdie” and “Letter on body Theo van Gogh disclosed. Hirsi Ali also receiving death threats”.






The page is turned. It says: “Quran, Surah 8, verse 39” and then: “Surah 8, verse 39: Fight them until there is no dissension, and the religion is entirely Allah’s”. Moreover, a voice can be heard which (probably) presents this text in the Arabic language. An Ayatollah appears who says: “The Islam is a religion that wants to control the world. It did so before and shall eventually do so again”. Followed by President Ahmadinejad who says: “The message of the Revolution is global, and is not restricted to a specific place or time. Have no doubt… Allah willing, Islam will conquer what? It will conquer all the mountain tops of the world”.






Then a number of apparently Arabic men appears on screen that make the following statements:






“We have ruled the world before. And Allah willing the day shall come that we will again rule the whole world. The day shall come that we will rule over America! The day shall come that we will rule over Great Britain and the whole world!”.






“Allah ordered us to spread this religion all over the world”.






“Thou shall take over the United States! Thou shall take over the United Kingdom! Thou shall take over Europe! Thou shall conquer them all. Thou shall be victorious! Thou shall take over Egypt. We have faith in Allah!”.






Then apparently Arabic people with signs are shown. The following texts can be read: “Islam will dominate the world” and “Freedom go to hell”.






Then the following text appears: “The Netherlands is under the spell of the Islam”. Stills are shown of mosques that are most likely situated in the Netherlands. A voice can also be heard which says: “These mosques are all part of the Dutch government system”. Footage is shown of a woman dressed in a burka combined with the newspaper header “Government: no burka prohibition” as also with satellite dishes and apartment buildings. Graphs are shown of the increase of the number of Muslims in the Netherlands in the course of the years. In the graphs the years 1909, 1960, 1990 and 2004 are shown with, respectively, the following numbers: 54, 1399, 458,000 and 944,000. Next to these graphs the number of Muslims in Europe in 2007 appears. The graph increases up to 54,000,000 and continues beyond the top of the screen. In the background stills can be seen of women with headscarves, satellite dishes and Dutch police officers in uniform taking off their shoes when they apparently enter a mosque. An apparent Muslim says: “If my sister or my mother has sex with another person I will also kill them”. The interviewer asks: “Then you commit blood vengeance!” The man answers: “Absolutely”. Another apparent Muslim says: “For example, in the Netherlands you can be adulterous or gay. But I do not wish to be part of that because the Islam considers that to be a crime”. A still appears of a postcard with the text: “Greetings from the Netherlands” where you can only see mosques. Then a preach can be heard, on screen the following appears: “Said in Dutch mosques”: “They must renounce political parties and worldly bodies of thought like liberalism, democracy, socialism and everything that smells of it and originates from the human brain” and (according to the text on screen pronounced in the El Tawheed mosque): “If a married man, by the grace of Allah, commits adultery, or a married woman commits adultery, she will be stoned”.






On screen the following question is shown: “The Netherlands in the future!?”. Stills are shown of apparently homosexual men (on screen it reads: “Gays”) who are hanged, children smothered in blood (on screen it reads: “Children”), stills of a woman with a bloody knife in her hand with a child smothered in blood on her lap, a woman (on screen it reads: “Women”) with a naked lower torso tied down to a bed and then a lot of blood (she is apparently being circumcised), a chopped off head of apparently a Muslim woman (she wears a headscarf), a woman dressed in a burka at a noose and a veiled woman who is shot through her head. These scenes are concluded with a large number of newspaper headlines. An enumeration of the headlines is provided below:






Islamists seek control, politically driven Muslims gain influence in Europe


Spanish Court examines ties. Laakkwartier with Madrid in terror web


Sudanese demand execution of British ‘teddy bear lady’


Three people suspected of planning attack


Hell will break loose. “What you need is a heavy bomb attack”. “We do not agree with the freedom of speech, because we renounce democracy”, “Our alternative is the Islam”


Explosive increase blood vengeance in Amsterdam


School closes on Muslim holidays


AIVD investigation: Jihad lessons at primary school


Minister reports Rotterdam abuse cases. Free trip to Mecca via Islam school


Ankara wants Turkish in classroom here


Donner eases the rules. Foreign imams can enter country more quickly


Murderer Theo van Gogh predicts terrorist acts. Mohammed B.: “My followers are ready”


Van Gogh murdered after Fatwa announcement


Almost half of the young Moroccans anti-Western


Mosques under spell of radical Muslim group


Suicide commandos in the Netherlands


Hamas meets in Rotterdam


Alexander must swim for hours. Moroccans throw gay into the water


Imams do not like gays


‘Imam legitimises violence against gays’


‘Throw gays of high buildings’


Mosque: “Turn the Netherlands into a Muslim state”


Girls still being circumcised


‘Muslims prevent doctors from providing care to women’


Halal fund: sliced meat for Muslims. New on Amsterdam Stock Exchange


Al Qaeda issues death sentence. Jihad against Wilders


‘Quran game licence’ Arabic Specialist Hans Jansen: “You already offend the Islam by not becoming a Muslim”






Then a hand can be seen that takes up a page of the Quran. The screen then turns black and the sound of paper being torn can be heard. On screen the text appears: “The sound you just heard was a page from the telephone directory. Because it is not up to me but up to the Muslims themselves to tear the vindictive verses from the Quran. Muslims want you to give room to the Islam, but the Islam does not offer room to you.






The government wants you to respect the Islam, yet the Islam has no respect at all for you. The Islam wants to control, subdue and is out for the destruction of our Western civilisation. In 1945 Nazism was beaten in Europe. In 1989 communism was beaten in Europe. Now the Islamic ideology must be beaten. Stop the Islamisation. Defend our freedom”.






The film again concludes with the image of the cartoon of Mohammed with the turban. It can be seen that the fuse in his turban is almost near the end. A ticking clock can be heard. The clock appears on screen and counts down from 00:03 to zero. A flash of lightning can be seen and a bolt of lightning can be heard. Then the Quran is closed, the word “Fitna” is shown which flows into the word “Fin” and then the credits of the film are shown.






(Article 137d of the Dutch Criminal Code)






3. he, on one or more dates in or about the period from 7 October 2006 up to and including 27 March 2008, in The Hague and/or Amsterdam and/or (elsewhere in) the Netherlands, on multiple occasions, at least once, (each time) in public, orally, in writing or through images, incited to discrimination, within the meaning of article 90 quarter of the Dutch Criminal Code, against people, i.e. Muslims, based on their religion, by (each time) in


– De Volkskrant and/or


– De Pers and/or


– Dagblad De Limburger-Limburgs Dagblad and/or


on the internet


– on the website http://www.geenstijl.nl and/or http://www.pvv.nl and/or


– on the website of Radio Nederland Wereldomroep and/or the Wereldomroep and/or


– on the website http://www.liveleak.com (in the film Fitna)


placing (having placed) and/or showing (having showed) and/or having heard one or more texts and/or images and/or footage and/or audio fragments with the following content:






(De Volkskrant of 7 October 2006, ‘The Pope is completely right’)






‘The borders are closed to all non-Western immigrants the same day.’






and/or






‘The demographic composition of the population is the biggest problem of the Netherlands. I am talking about what comes to the Netherlands and what reproduces here. If you look at the figures and the development therein* Muslims will move from the big cities to the country. We must stop the tsunami of the Islamisation. This hits us in the heart, in our identity, in our culture. If we do not defend ourselves all other points from my programme will appear to be useless.’






and/or






‘Of course. 99 percent of the people who came to live there are of an Islamic origin.’






and/or






‘Absolutely. The figures show this. One out of five Moroccan youngsters is registered with the police as a suspect. Their behaviour derives from their religion and culture. You cannot consider these two facts separately. The other day the Pope was completely right: the Islam is a violent religion. Islam means submission and conversion of non-Muslims. This interpretation rules in the living rooms of these problematic youngsters, in the mosques. It has been embedded in this community itself.’






and/or






‘Everybody adapts to our dominant culture. Who does not do so will no longer be here in twenty years time. They will be deported.’






and/or






‘We have a gigantic problem with Muslims, in every respect it is going too far, and we present solutions that cannot even get a mouse to come out of its hole.’






and/or






‘Those Moroccan boys are really violent. They beat up people because of their sexual orientation. I have never used violence.’






and/or






‘Of this tsunami of a culture foreign to us that becomes ever more dominant here. This must be stopped.’






and/or






(Internet column ‘Mohammed (part II): the Islamic invasion’ of 6 February 2007, on the website of http://www.geenstijl.nl and/or the website http://www.pvv.nl)






‘In the Nederlands Dagblad of last Saturday Professor Ralphael Israeli is also quoted who predicts a “Third Islamic Invasion of Europe” by means of “penetration, propaganda, conversion and demographic changes”. In his eyes the Europeans are even committing “demographic suicide” with the advancing Islam. The first Islamic invasion was stopped at Poitiers in the year 732 after the conquest of Spain, Portugal and the south of France and the second invasion attempt by the Ottoman Turks as stopped before the gates of Vienna where they were, fortunately, beaten in 1683. According to Prof. Israeli the third invasion attempt that is now going on in Europe has a much bigger change of success.






The man is absolutely right. The Muslim population doubles with every generation – 25 years – and the number of Islamics in each and every European country is taking disturbing forms.’






and/or






‘The Netherlands as Islamic mission country. If a terrorist like Mohammed B. could yet not be stopped, the tactics of penetration, propaganda, conversion and demographic change will indeed prove to be successful if the cowardly political elite from VVD to PvdA and from SP to CDA and their European equivalents continue to remain silent about it and denounce and demonise those who are not. There is enough Islam in Europe and in the Netherlands. The PVV will oppose this third Islamic invasion attempt with man and might.’






and/or






(De Pers of 13 February 2007, ‘What is driving Geert Wilders?’)






‘We want enough. Close the borders, no more Islamics in the Netherlands, many Muslims deported from the Netherlands, denaturalisation of Islamic criminals.’






and/or






‘It is the facts. The Islam is a violent religion. If Mohammed would be alive here today the Lower House would immediately agree to hunt him out of the country.’






and/or






‘Former chief of the Mossad Efraim Halevy says that the Third World War has already started. I am not putting these words in my mouth, but it is correct though.’






and/or






‘I have good intentions. We let something happen as a result of which this becomes a totally different society. I am well aware that in a few decades there will not be an Islamic majority yet. But it is growing. With aggressive elements, imperialism. Just take a walk down the street and look what it is bringing us. You feel that you are no longer living in your own country. A fight is going on and we must defend ourselves. Soon there will be more mosques than churches!’






and/or






(De Volkskrant of 8 August 2007, ‘Wilders: prohibit the Quran, also in mosque’)






‘A prohibition is a prohibition. Hence not only the sale but also the use in mosques and possession at home must be punished. If this is not possible in the current legislation then a new prohibitory provision must be created.’






and/or






‘This book incites to hatred and murder, and does therefore not fit in our legal system. If Muslims want to participate they must renounce this Quran. I understand this is much to ask, but we must stop making concessions.’






and/or






(De Volkskrant of 8 August 2007, ‘Enough is enough: prohibit the Quran’)






‘A moderate Islam does not exist. It does not exist because there is no distinction between Good Islam and Bad Islam. There is Islam and that is it. And Islam means the Quran and nothing but the Quran. And the Quran is the Mein Kampf of a religion that intends to eliminate others and that refers to those others – non-Muslims – as unfaithful dogs, inferior beings. Read the Quran, this Mein Kampf, again. In whatever version, you will see that all the evil that the sons of Allah commit to us and themselves originates from this book (Oriana Fallaci, The Force of Reason, post-script, page 305, February 2006).’






and/or






‘The core of the problem is the fascist Islam, the sick ideology of Allah and Mohammed as laid down in the Islamic Mein Kampf: the Quran. The texts from the Quran leave little to imagination.’






and/or






‘Prohibit this miserable book the way Mein Kampf was also prohibited!’






and/or






‘I am so ashamed of all those in- and outside of the government and the Lower House who refuse to stop the Islamic invasion of the Netherlands. I am so ashamed of Dutch politics where the overrepresentation of members of ethnic minorities in crime and criminality is accepted day in day out without an answer to it.’






and/or






‘The Hague is filled with cowardly folks. Scared people who were born cowardly and will die cowardly. Who feel and stimulate that the Dutch culture is founded on a Jewish-Christian-Islamic tradition. Who issue a general pardon to liars and criminals.’






and/or


‘Who do not give a damn about the interests of the Dutch citizens and cooperate in the transformation of the Netherlands into Netherabia as a province of the Islamic super state Eurabia.’






and/or






‘I have had enough of the Islam in the Netherlands: no more Muslim immigrants. I have had enough of the adoration of Allah and Mohammed in the Netherlands: no more mosques. I have had enough of the Quran in the Netherlands: prohibit this fascist book.






Enough is enough.’






and/or






(‘Wilders wants a renewed mini Quran’ of 7 September 2007 on the website of Radio Nederland Wereldomroep and/or the Wereldomroep via the link: http://static.rnw.nl/migratie/www.wereldomroep.nl/actua/nl/nederlandsepolitiek/070909wildersintvw-redirected)






‘This kind of renewed version would be desirable, according to the PVV leader; a Quran deprived of all vindictive verses. “It should actually have the format of a Donald Duck”, according to Wilders.’






and/or






(De Limburger of 9 February 2008, ‘Islam is my Fitna’)






‘I point to the role which the horrible Quran plays in the Islamisation of our society.’






and/or






‘In the film I illustrate texts and verses from the Quran with documentary images that demonstrate that the Quran is not a dead letter but the face of the Islam: a huge threat.’






and/or






(De Volkskrant of 11 February 2008, ‘It no longer has any use, but The Film will be there’)






‘In the GPD interview he explains that he will illustrate texts and verses from the Quran with documentary images. He wants to, by way of example, demonstrate that the Quran is not “a dead letter but the face of the Islam: a huge threat”.’






and/or






(The film Fitna, placed on http://www.liveleak.com on 27 March 2008)






The film starts with a black image with the text: “Warning: this film contains very shocking material”. Then the sound of a match being lighted can be heard and a book with oriental looking symbols is opened up that looks like the Quran. On the first page a cartoon can be seen of Mohammed with a bomb in his turban. The sound of a burning fuse can be heard. A clock appears that starts counting down from 15:00.






A page of the book is turned over. Two open pages can be seen. On the page on the right the following text appears: “Quran, Surah 8, verse 60”. Then on the page on the left appears: “Surah 8. Verse 60: Prepare for them whatever force and cavalry ye are able of gathering, to strike terror, to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies, of Allah and your enemies”. A voice can also be heard which (most likely) sings this text in the Arabic language. On the page on the right, next to the text, footage of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York (09/11/2001) are shown as well as of the attacks by Muslim extremists in Madrid and London with footage of the victims. This footage is alternated with footage of apparent imams who say: “What makes Allah happy? Allah is happy if non-Muslims are being killed” and “Destroy the unbelievers and polytheists, your (Allah’s) enemies and the enemies of the religion. Allah, count them and kill them up to the very last of them. And do not spare a single one”.






The page is turned. Now the page on the right states: “Quran, Surah 4, verse 56” and on the page on the left: “Surah 4, verse 56: Those who reject our signs, we shall soon cast into the fire: as often as their skins are roasted through, we shall change them for fresh skins, that they may taste the penalty: for Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise”. Then footage follows of a man who yells: “If Allah permits us, oh nation of Mohammed, even the stone will say Oh Muslim. A Jew is hiding behind me, come and cut off his head. And we shall cut off his head! By Allah, we shall cut it off! Oh Jews! Allah Akbar! (Allah is Great!). Jihad for the sake of Allah! Jihad for the sake of Allah! Victory to Allah! Allah Akbar! (Allah is Great!)”.


Then footage is shown of a young girl wearing a headscarf who is asked by a person off-screen who the Jews are. The little girl answers: “They are apes and pigs”. The voice says: “Are they apes and pigs? Says who?” The little girl says: “Allah”. The voice asks: “Where did he say this?” The little girl answers: “In the Quran”. The following footage shows a mass of people who are dragging corpses behind them. The following footage again shows images of the attacks in London showing, among other things, an exploded red double-decker bus. Then footage follows of apparently an imam who calls outs: “The Jews are Jews. They are the ones who must be butchered and killed”. These stills are intertwined with stills of Muslims (as follows from the headscarves and facial covering worn by one of the female persons) who show texts on signs: “Be prepared for the real Holocaust” and “God bless Hitler”. Then footage of a group of people in uniform who are lined up follows, apparently fighters who are standing with extended right arm (apparently bringing the Hitler salute).






A page is turned. On the new page the following text appears: “Quran, Surah 47, verse 4” and then: “Surah 47, verse 4: Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers in fight, smite at their necks; At length, when ye have thoroughly subdued them, bind a bond firmly on them”. A voice can also be heard which (probably) presents this text in the Arabic language. Then a newspaper article is shown of the murder of Theo van Gogh. A fragment of an interview with Theo van Gogh can be heard where he says, among other things: “I do not think that bullet will come for me!”. A picture of a male person appears who looks like Mohammed B. who has been convicted of the murder of Theo van Gogh. On screen appears: Mohammed B. Immediately thereafter an audio fragment in which the voice of Mohammed B. can be heard who says: “If I had the opportunity, if I would be free, and I had the opportunity to do it again, what I did on 2 November, I would have done exactly the same”. Footage appears of people who yell: “Learn from Theo van Gogh. Learn from the examples you can see! Because you pay with your blood!” and also footage of people with bloody knives. A newspaper article is shown with the header: “Hirsi Ali and Wilders into hiding. Death list. Targets in letter of Mohammed B.” A fragment can also be seen of, as can be seen on screen, a Saudi TV station, Iqra TV, where a person says: “Houses and young men must be sacrificed, throats must be cut and skulls must be crushed. This is the road to victory”. Stills are shown of people wearing balaclavas and holding firearms. In between them they hold a man who is apparently their prisoner. The person wearing a balaclava in the middle reads a statement out loud. Then the masked men move to cut off the head of the prisoner. The beheading itself can (barely) not be seen. Yet the audio of the fragment remains audible. Sounds can be heard that apparently point to the beheading. After a few seconds the footage returns and one of the masked men can be seen holding the cut-off head of the prisoner up.






A page is turned again. On the new page can be read: “Quran, Surah 4, verse 89” and then: “Surah 4, verse 89: They but wish that ye should reject faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing as they, so take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah. But if they turn renegades, seize them and kill them wherever ye find them, and take no friends or helpers from their ranks”. A voice can also be heard which (probably) presents the text in the Arabic language. The text is followed by footage of Arabic looking people who state the following: “The Islam is a sacred religion. The best religion there is. If somebody converts to Christianity he deserves the death penalty”. Another person says: “The Islam is superior compared to the Jews, the Christians, the Buddhists and the Hindus. The only law recognised by Allah is the Islam. And he who pursues anything other but the Islam shall never be accepted”. The following newspaper headlines appear on screen: “Former Muslim Jami molested”, “Islamic witch hunt again threatens”, “Death to Rushdie” and “Letter on body Theo van Gogh disclosed. Hirsi Ali also receiving death threats”.






The page is turned. It says: “Quran, Surah 8, verse 39” and then: “Surah 8, verse 39: Fight them until there is no dissension, and the religion is entirely Allah’s”. Moreover, a voice can be heard which (probably) presents this text in the Arabic language. An Ayatollah appears who says: “The Islam is a religion that wants to control the world. It did so before and shall eventually do so again”. Followed by President Ahmadinejad who says: “The message of the Revolution is global, and is not restricted to a specific place or time. Have no doubt… Allah willing, Islam will conquer what? It will conquer all the mountain tops of the world”.






Then a number of apparently Arabic men appears on screen that make the following statements:






“We have ruled the world before. And Allah willing the day shall come that we will again rule the whole world. The day shall come that we will rule over America! The day shall come that we will rule over Great Britain and the whole world!”.






“Allah ordered us to spread this religion all over the world”.


“Thou shall take over the United States! Thou shall take over the United Kingdom! Thou shall take over Europe! Thou shall conquer them all. Thou shall be victorious! Thou shall take over Egypt. We have faith in Allah!”.






Then apparently Arabic people with signs are shown. The following texts can be read: “Islam will dominate the world” and “Freedom go to hell”.






Then the following text appears: “The Netherlands is under the spell of the Islam”. Stills are shown of mosques that are most likely situated in the Netherlands. A voice can also be heard which says: “These mosques are all part of the Dutch government system”. Footage is shown of a woman dressed in a burka combined with the newspaper header “Government: no burka prohibition” as also with satellite dishes and apartment buildings. Graphs are shown of the increase of the number of Muslims in the Netherlands in the course of the years. In the graphs the years 1909, 1960, 1990 and 2004 are shown with, respectively, the following numbers: 54, 1399, 458,000 an 944,000. Next to these graphs the number of Muslims in Europe in 2007 appears. The graph increases up to 54,000,000 and continues beyond the top of the screen. In the background stills can be seen of women with headscarves, satellite dishes and Dutch police officers in uniform taking off their shoes when they apparently enter a mosque. An apparent Muslim says: “If my sister or my mother has sex with another person I will also kill them”. The interviewer asks: “Then you commit blood vengeance!” The man answers: “Absolutely”. Another apparent Muslim says: “For example, in the Netherlands you can be adulterous or gay. But I do not wish to be part of that because the Islam considers that to be a crime”. A still appears of a postcard with the text: “Greetings from the Netherlands” where you can only see mosques. Then a preach can be heard, on screen the following appears: “Said in Dutch mosques”: “They must renounce political parties and worldly bodies of thought like liberalism, democracy, socialism and everything that smells of it and originates from the human brain” and (according to the text on screen pronounced in the El Tawheed mosque): “If a married man, by the grace of Allah, commits adultery, or a married woman commits adultery, she will be stoned”.






On screen the following question is shown: “The Netherlands in the future!?”. Stills are shown of apparently homosexual men (on screen it reads: “Gays”) who are hanged, children smothered in blood (on screen it reads: “Children”), stills of a woman with a bloody knife in her hand with a child smothered in blood on her lap, a woman (on screen it reads: “Women”) with a naked lower torso tied down to a bed and then a lot of blood (she is apparently being circumcised), a chopped off head of apparently a Muslim woman (she wears a headscarf), a woman dressed in a burka at a noose and a veiled woman who is shot through her head. These scenes are concluded with a large number of newspaper headlines. An enumeration of the headlines is provided below:






Islamists seek control, politically driven Muslims gain influence in Europe


Spanish Court examines ties. Laakkwartier with Madrid in terror web


Sudanese demand execution of British ‘teddy bear lady’


Three people suspected of planning attack


Hell will break loose. “What you need is a heavy bomb attack”. “We do not agree with the freedom of speech, because we renounce democracy”, “Our alternative is the Islam”


Explosive increase blood vengeance in Amsterdam


School closes on Muslim holidays


AIVD investigation: Jihad lessons at primary school


Minister reports Rotterdam abuse cases. Free trip to Mecca via Islam school


Ankara wants Turkish in classroom here


Donner eases the rules. Foreign imams can enter country more quickly


Murderer Theo van Gogh predicts terrorist acts. Mohammed B.: “My followers are ready”


Van Gogh murdered after Fatwa announcement


Almost half of the young Moroccans anti-Western


Mosques under spell of radical Muslim group


Suicide commandos in the Netherlands


Hamas meets in Rotterdam


Alexander must swim for hours. Moroccans throw gay into the water


Imams do not like gays


‘Imam legitimises violence against gays’


‘Throw gays of high buildings’


Mosque: “Turn the Netherlands into a Muslim state”


Girls still being circumcised


‘Muslims prevent doctors from providing care to women’


Halal fund: sliced meat for Muslims. New on Amsterdam Stock Exchange


Al Qaeda issues death sentence. Jihad against Wilders


‘Quran game licence’ Arabic Specialist Hans Jansen: “You already offend the Islam by not becoming a Muslim”






Then a hand can be seen that takes up a page of the Quran. The screen then turns black and the sound of paper being torn can be heard. On screen the text appears: “The sound you just heard was a page from the telephone directory. Because it is not up to me but up to the Muslims themselves to tear the vindictive verses from the Quran. Muslims want you to give room to the Islam, but the Islam does not offer room to you.






The government wants you to respect the Islam, yet the Islam has no respect at all for you. The Islam wants to control, subdue and is out for the destruction of our Western civilisation. In 1945 Nazism was beaten in Europe. In 1989 communism was beaten in Europe. Now the Islamic ideology must be beaten. Stop the Islamisation. Defend our freedom”.






The film again concludes with the image of the cartoon of Mohammed with the turban. It can be seen that the fuse in his turban is almost near the end. A ticking clock can be heard. The clock appears on screen and counts down from 00:03 to zero. A flash of lightning can be seen and a bolt of lightning can be heard. Then the Quran is closed, the word “Fitna” is shown which flows into the word “Fin” and then the credits of the film are shown.






(Article 137d of the Dutch Criminal Code)










4. he, on one or more dates on or about 7 October 2006, in The Hague and/or Amsterdam and/or (elsewhere in) the Netherlands, on multiple occasions, at least once, (each time) in public, orally, in writing or through images, incited to hatred of people, i.e. non-Western immigrants and/or Moroccans, based on their race, by (each time) in De Volkskrant placing (having placed) one or more texts with the following content:






(De Volkskrant of 7 October 2006, ‘The Pope is completely right’)






‘The borders are closed to all non-Western immigrants the same day.’






and/or






‘Of course. 99 percent of the people who came to live there are of an Islamic origin.’


and/or






‘Absolutely. The figures show this. One out of five Moroccan youngsters is registered with the police as a suspect. Their behaviour derives from their religion and culture. You cannot consider these two facts separately. The other day the Pope was completely right: the Islam is a violent religion. Islam means submission and conversion of non-Muslims. This interpretation rules in the living rooms of these problematic youngsters, in the mosques. It has been embedded in this community itself.’






and/or






‘Those Moroccan boys are really violent. They beat up people because of their sexual orientation. I have never used violence.’






(Article 137d of the Dutch Criminal Code)






5.






he, on one or more dates on or about 7 October 2006, in The Hague and/or Amsterdam and/or (elsewhere in) the Netherlands, on multiple occasions, at least once, (each time) in public, orally, in writing or through images, incited to discrimination, within the meaning of article 90 quarter of the Dutch Criminal Code, against people, i.e. non-Western immigrants and/or Moroccans, based on their race, by (each time) in De Volkskrant placing (having placed) one or more texts with the following content:














Explanatory notes to the procedure






1. Presence at session


If you were younger than age 18 years at the time of the act with which you are charged you are required to appear at the session. In all other cases you are not required to appear. If the judge deems it absolutely necessary that you be present at the session, he can require you to appear. If you do not appear, the court ultimately can have the police bring you to court under duress. A lawyer can represent you at the court hearing. Oral authorisation is sufficient for this. You can also be represented at sessions of the sub-district court [kantonrechter] and/or the police court for economic offences [economische politierechter] by someone who is not a lawyer, unless you have been charged with a criminal offence. That person must hold a special written power of attorney. If your representative or authorised lawyer does appear at the session and you do not, you will be deemed to have appeared in person for the further handling of the matter.


2. Legal representation


If you do not have a lawyer, you can request a lawyer at the Juridisch Loket, or Legal Desk (telephone 0900-8020). If you are in detention, you will be given a lawyer,


3. Avoiding prosecution and proposal for an out-of-court settlement


4.


If only a monetary fine has been imposed, you can ask the public prosecutor to propose an out-of-court settlement. In this proposal, the public prosecutor will set the conditions you must satisfy to avoid criminal proceedings. If you pay the maximum of the monetary penalty within the time set, the public prosecutor cannot refuse your request for a proposal for an out-of-court settlement. If you fulfil the conditions stated in this proposed out-of-court settlement then this summons will lapse and you need not appear before the court. It may happen that the public prosecutor will offer you a proposed out-of-court settlement before your court date, or has already done so. You are not required to accept it. In such a case, however, the summons remains in force.


5. Objections


If you wish to file a notice of objection against this summons you must do so within eight days of the date of this summons and before the start of the court hearing. This does not apply to matters before the sub-district court. If you wish to file a notice of objection it is important that you state why you do not agree with this summons. You must submit your notice of objection, personally, to the Clerk of the Court. You lawyer or someone to whom you have given a special written power of attorney may also do this. You may not file a notice of objection if you have already received notice of further prosecution for the same charge,


6. Requesting postponement of the session


You can ask the court for a postponement of the proceedings of your case, for example, if you cannot prepare adequately or if you cannot appear due to illness or a scheduled holiday. Request the postponement of the proceedings of your case as soon as possible after receiving the summons. You must do this in writing, stating your name, the date of the hearing, and the public prosecutor’s office number in your letter along with why you want the postponement. If you have a receipt for the booking of a trip or a physician’s certificate, include it. Send your request to the Clerk of the Court. If you would like more information about this, contact the Clerk of the Court (see the front for the address, or go to http://www.rechtspraak.nl ).


The Court is not obliged to postpone the session. You must also enquire personally before the hearing date whether you have been given a postponement.


7. Witness and experts


8.


The public prosecutor can call witnesses and experts to appear at the hearing. If any witnesses and experts have been called, this will be stated on the summons. You can also bring witnesses and experts to the hearing. It would be appreciated if you so notify the public prosecutor in advance. You will be responsible for any costs associated with this. You can also ask the public prosecutor to call witnesses and/or experts for you. Direct such a request in writing to the public prosecutor at least ten days before the court session. If the summons is sent to you later than fourteen days before the court session, then you are obliged to ask the public prosecutor to call witnesses and/or experts for you within four days after the date of the summons but no later than three days before the court session. You are to describe these witnesses and/or experts by the name, profession, and place of residence of the persons desired. The public prosecutor is not required to call for you the witnesses and experts you have requested. If you do not agree with the public prosecutor’s decision, you can make this known to the judge at the session. It is no longer possible to have new witnesses and experts called after proceedings have been suspended.


9. Information about the judgment


If this summons has been served on your personally or if you, your authorised lawyer or your representative is present at the (further) session(s), the judgment of the Court becomes irrevocable after 14 days and you will not receive any notice of this. This will also be the case if there were special reasons by which you were able to know in advance the day of the session. You can obtain information about the judgment from the Clerk of the Court or from your lawyer. If you have made a motion for adjournment, you must inform yourself whether this has been honoured.


10. Possibility of appeal


If you do not agree with the decision of the court, you can appeal to a higher court within fourteen days.


How?


You can do so by going to the Clerk of the Court and filling in a form that you must sign, or by asking your lawyer to lodge an appeal, or by sending a letter to the Clerk of the Court.


Note carefully: you must state clearly in this letter that you grant the Clerk the authorisation to lodge an appeal on your behalf and that you authorise the Clerk of the Court on your behalf to receive the notice of the appeal hearing. The Clerk will then forward this notice to the address you have provided.


Your appeal will not always be taken up!


If you have been sentenced only to pay a monetary penalty of up to €500 and if it concerned a charge or charges for which the maximum punishment was four years imprisonment, the President of the Court of Appeal could decide not to have the higher court take up your case again. It is therefore important that you clearly inform the President in a letter (the notice of appeal) why you want to submit your case to a higher court. The Clerk must receive this letter within fourteen days after you have lodged your appeal. You will receive notice as to whether your appeal will be taken up or not. If the case is taken up you will receive a summons to appear before a session of the Court of Appeal. Should the case not be taken up, the judgment that you had appealed becomes irrevocable. You then have no further opportunity for appeal (remedy at law) and will receive a giro collection form within a few weeks to pay the penalty.


Do you have further questions? Take up contact with the Clerk of the Court. The contact details are on your summons.


Recording of your details in the Reference Index of Persons


Your personal details will be recorded in an automated system. For more information about this, contact the district court public prosecutor’s office [arrondissementsparket]. Its address is given on the front of this summons.






















• Article 137c Dutch Penal Code


o 1. He who publicly, verbally or in writing or image, deliberately expresses himself in an way insulting of a group of people because of their race, their religion or belief, or their hetero- or homosexual nature or their physical, mental, or intellectual disabilities, will be punished with a prison sentence of at the most one year or a fine of third category.


o 2. If the offence is committed by a person who makes it his profession or habit, or by two or more people in association, a prison sentence of at the most two years or a fine of fourth category will be imposed.






• Article 137d Dutch Penal Code


o 1. He who publicly, verbally or in writing or in an image, incites hatred against or discrimination of people or violent behaviour against person or property of people because of their race, their religion or belief, their gender or hetero- or homosexual nature or their physical, mental, or intellectual disabilities, will be punished with a prison sentence of at the most one year or a fine of third category.


o 2. If the offence is committed by a person who makes it his profession or habit, or by two or more people in association, a prison sentence of at the most two years or a fine of fourth category will be imposed.