Germany

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.


   
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