unsuccessful complaint against conviction for anti-Semitic utterance
The complainant, a former Republican county chairman, had in November 2000 the then Vice President of the Central derJuden in Germany in a press statement as "gypsy Jew" means. In view of this statement of the complainants for defamation was sentenced to a fine. His constitutional complaint directed against that with which he inter alia dieVerletzung his speech was criticized to no avail. The 1st
Chamber of the First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court took Diev not complaining gathering for decision. The complainants, through the condemnation does not violate derMeinungsfreiheit's fundamental right. It is not constitutionally zubeanstanden that the Trial Chamber in the choice of the combined term "gypsy Jew" which are reminiscent of the Nazi use of language, to exclusion and inhuman degradation derRoma, Gypsy and Jewish sees targeting expression and has been classified as an insult.
order of 12 July 2005 - 1 BvR 2097/02 -
Karlsruhe, 29 July 2005
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