The Court of Appeal in Amsterdam jurisdiction in the criminal appeal against a bookseller from Amsterdam, which the book Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler sold at his shop in 2013 en 2014. He was in november 2014 acquitted, but the prosecution had appealed. According to the court, he was acquitted visit. They dismiss the bookseller from prosecution. The Court finds that the book plays an important role in the public debate and that the seller is not hate speech. Also, since the texts from Mein Kampf to be found everywhere. The Public Prosecutor's Supreme Court against the acquittal. She states that the seller is guilty “to have for distribution of stock of an article in which statements are included which are to be regarded as insulting a group and inciting hatred and discrimination against Jews because of their race and religion“. The case comes in februari 2017 the Supreme Court.

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