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2024-05-10 18:31:28 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 2BA018516EC332E28680E258FF3B15433CF949667D1BD3BF234A69D6295B5957
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The Criminal Court in the East Flemish city of Ghent has sentenced the former federal MP Dries Van Langenhove to 1 year’s imprisonment for breaches of the racism and negationism law. He drew the other defendants into his racist, hateful, Nazi and negationist discourse. https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2024/03/12/former-mp-given-1-year-prison-sentence/ https://www.politico.eu/article/belgium-far-right-prodigy-dries-van-langenhove-prison-term-incite-violence-deny-holocaust/
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