The Public Prosecution Service demands a community service of 100 hours, of which 40 hours conditionally, against a 32-year-old man from Gouda for group insult and the public disclosure of discriminatory statements. The suspect made insulting remarks about Jews on X and in a Telegram group.
The suspect posted messages on X with a publicly accessible account in which he portrayed Jews negatively: he held Jews responsible for slavery, pedophilia, wars, and genocides, and Jews were portrayed as psychopaths who kill babies.
He also posted messages in a Telegram group in which he suggested that Jews have a conspiracy to dominate the world and that they invented antisemitism themselves.
The suspect has made extremely hurtful, insulting, and discriminatory statements. There is no place for such statements in our society, said the public prosecutor. Dutch society is diverse, and everyone living in the Netherlands must feel safe and accepted. They demanded a community service of 100 hours, of which 40 hours conditionally. According to the Public Prosecution Service, this conditional part should be linked to a probation period of 3 years, with the condition that the suspect engages in conversation with an ideological expert.