{"id":290766,"date":"2017-01-19T14:36:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T13:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/germany-senior-citizen-sentenced-for-distributing-anti-migrant-leaflets\/"},"modified":"2017-01-19T14:36:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T13:36:07","slug":"germany-senior-citizen-sentenced-for-distributing-anti-migrant-leaflets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/germany-senior-citizen-sentenced-for-distributing-anti-migrant-leaflets\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany: Senior Citizen Sentenced for Distributing Anti-Migrant Leaflets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>A 66-year-old German man has been given a suspended three-month prison sentence for hate speech after he distributed leaflets in his town calling migrants \u201cparasites\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The pensioner, referred to as Wilfried\u00a0M. in local media, admitted to the crime and claimed he regretted his actions. According to prosecutors, on July 31, 2016\u00a0Wilfried handed out laminated leaflets that said,\u201dRefugees go home\u201d and \u201cYou are parasites\u201d in the town of Werther, North Rhine-Westphalia,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.westfalen-blatt.de\/OWL\/Lokales\/Kreis-Guetersloh\/Werther\/2664677-Pamphlete-gegen-Fluechtlinge-66-jaehriger-Wertheraner-kommt-mit-Bewaehrungsstrafe-davon-Drei-Monate-wegen-Volksverhetzung\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>\u00a0local paper <em>Westfalen-Blatt<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was the dumbest thing I\u2019ve ever done,\u201d said the 66-year-old who is retired and lives on the government\u2019s\u00a0Hartz IV benefit system. The court said that despite his admission, he was still guilty of \u201cincitement to the people\u201d and gave the man the minimum sentence of 3 months in prison suspended for a three-year period.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors also noted the leaflets had been found in the area of a local asylum home, but the pensioner denied having placed them there, saying he had only put up fliers in the area around the Kreissparkasse cash machines and in the area\u00a0between Ravensberger Strasse and the Netto Markt supermarket.<\/p>\n<p>The pensioner said he had put up the leaflets in response to the way new asylum seekers behaved in the small town, which is home to around eleven and a half thousand people. According to Wilfried, the asylum seekers he saw in Werther were \u201cdisrespectful, demanding, and ungrateful\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer for the defendant,\u00a0Kerstin Koch,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/germany-senior-citizen-sentenced-for-distributing-anti-migrant-leaflets\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 66-year-old German man has been given a suspended three-month prison sentence for hate speech after he distributed leaflets in his town calling migrants \u201cparasites\u201d. The pensioner, referred to as Wilfried\u00a0M. in local media, admitted to the crime and claimed he regretted his actions. According to prosecutors, on July 31, 2016\u00a0Wilfried handed out laminated leaflets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-290766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}