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| Subject: Absurd: Ex-Nazi SS officer faces hate speech charge Sat Feb 02, 2019 4:15 pm | |
| A 96-year-old former SS member who was involved in the massacre of 86 French men and boys during the Second World War is facing a new investigation for hate speech.
Karl Münter was sentenced to death in absentia in France in 1949 - but he had long since returned home to Germany.
The verdict is now meaningless because the French statute of limitations - 20 years - has expired, and EU citizens cannot be prosecuted for crimes they have already been convicted of in another state.
This means that Münter has not served a single day in prison for his part in the brutal killings that took place in the village of Ascq, near Lille on the night of April 1 1944.
If found guilty of Volksverhetzung, Münter could face a prison sentence of up to five years.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6660833/Ex-Nazi-SS-officer-involved-1944-massacre-86-French-men-boys-faces-hate-speech.html |
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