Sacking Permitted Because Of Racist Pamphlets
Kassel / Germany (RNC Agency) 14.02.1996
Civil-Servants who produce or distribute racist pamphlets must reck on with
being sacked from their job. So decided the Industrial - Court on Wednesday as
a result of a complaint from a finance civil-employee from Cologne. A similar
judgment was served on a man in March of the previous year as the Court had
found the 25 year-old man guilty of having produced and distributed racist
pamphlets in the Summer and Autumn of 1991. In the said pamphlets, he described
foreigners and Roma as : criminals, parasites. The charge against him was there
for,`` incitement to stri-up in the public, hate against foreigners and Roma``.
( Case Nr.2.acr274/95 ).The State employer sacked him as a result of the
judgment. In spite of all his efforts to have the judgment reversed in the
High-Industrial Court they were to no avail. The High and other Industrial
court that the defendants claim to right of freedom and mind did not
apply tothis case in particular with regard to the kind of racist statements
made in his pamphlets.However, due to the fact that the man had worked for the
State 25years and that he would have very little chance of finding a new job as
he was at the age 55 years, High-Court sent the case back to the Lower Court
suggesting that the a for ementioned points of mitigationbe considered too.
His statements were made in private as adviserto his Right-Wing group
" Die Burger " and not in his function as a civil employee.