[BerlinerZeitung] Half a year after the knife attack on activist Michael Stürzenberger in Mannheim, he has now been convicted for a rally in 2020, according to a report.The anti-Islam activist and blogger Michael Stürzenberger was sentenced to a fine by the Hamburg Regional Court on Monday for incitement, as the portal Endstation Rechts reports. The 60-year-old had denigrated refugees and Muslims at a rally. According to the portal, this was Stürzenberger's first public appearance since an Islamist attempted to stab him in May. During the attack in Mannheim, the Afghan attacker injured Stürzenberger and killed the 29-year-old police officer Rouven Laur by stabbing him in the neck.
| That would be Suleiman Atayi, 25, from Herat, who went hunting for unbeliever victims with a large hunting knife. |
The trial in which Stürzenberger has now been legally convicted relates to a rally the activist held with the anti-Islam organization “ Citizens’ Movement Pax Europa ” in Hamburg in October 2020. There, in the presence of numerous counter-demonstrators, he made statements that the regional court condemned as incitement to hatred.
The Hamburg District Court had previously sentenced him to a six-month prison sentence in 2022, according to the report by Endstation Rechts. In the subsequent appeal proceedings at the regional court, the sentence was then converted to a suspended sentence. Due to formal errors, the case was appealed, with the sentence announced on Monday of a fine of 120 daily rates of 30 euros as the result.
Michael Stürzenberger has already been convicted in the past, for example for insult and incitement . The alleged attacker from Mannheim was charged with murder by the Federal Prosecutor's Office in November. He is in custody at an unknown location.
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