Ex-Wirt received conditional imprisonment for Nazi postings

2023-06-02 19:51:00

The man is said to have published Nazi propaganda on his Telegram channel. The closed restaurant in the Neunkirchen district was the scene of police operations during the pandemic. According to the police, the convicted neo-Nazi Gottfried Küssel and corona deniers were among the guests. According to the regional court, the judgment is not final.

During the jury hearing, the accused was accused of denying and grossly trivializing the Holocaust. According to the indictment, he should send documents on the number of victims among the German population in the Second World War and a letter with the text “Referring to your aforementioned letter, we inform you politely that there were no gassing ovens in the Dachau concentration camp until 1945 and also after 1945. There was only one crematorium.” have published, as well as the comment “The documents prove the lie about Germany!”.

Judgment not final

There was an acquittal on another charge under the Prohibition Act in connection with a telegram posting. The man was also convicted of breaking a seal. A case of insult was dropped because a witness did not appear.

The conditional detention of 14 months was pronounced as an additional penalty to a judgment of November 7, 2022. At that time, the accused received four months conditionally for fraud, public insult and misuse of sound recordings and listening devices. The public prosecutor’s office made no statement on Friday evening, the defense reported a nullity complaint and appeal. The judgment is therefore not final.

Illegal operation in Corona times

In March 2022, the public prosecutor’s office began investigations under the Prohibition Act after a statement of facts submitted by “Stop the Right”. During police operations in the restaurant, which had officially been closed for a long time, illegal operations were uncovered in February of the previous year, and numerous guests did not have 2G proof. According to the executive, during previous checks, several guests, some of whom were known to the police and assigned to the corona denier milieu, had been encountered.