“You are being acquitted on all the charges that were put against you,” Judge Marcel van Oosten told Wilders who has been on trial in the Amsterdam regional court since October last year.
The flamboyant MP faced five counts of hate speech and discrimination for his anti-Islamic remarks on websites, Internet forums and in Dutch newspapers between October 2006 and March 2008, and in his controversial 17-minute movie Fitna (“Discord” in Arabic).
He also compared the Koran with Hitler’s Mein Kampf while in Fitna he used shocking images of the September 11 attacks in the United States.
(Published 23 June 2011, 17:08 IST)
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