{"id":4834,"date":"2020-11-10T02:59:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T07:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4834"},"modified":"2020-11-10T02:59:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T07:59:54","slug":"lady-michele-renouf-acquitted-for-thought-crimes-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4834","title":{"rendered":"Lady Michele Renouf Acquitted For Thought Crimes in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Lady Michele Renouf Acquitted For Thought Crimes in Germany <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At last it is safe to communicate the good news from Dresden, where the German state abandoned its prosecution of Mich\u00e8le.\u00a0 We were required to remain silent about this until the papers had been signed by the court on October 28th formally acquitting Mich\u00e8le on all charges, and received by Attorney Wolfram Nahrath in Berlin on November 5th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


For once we have some good news!\u00a0 This will be posted later this evening on the blog site etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Victory!<\/strong>
Lady Renouf vindicated over Dresden speechAfter 32 months German courts back down, Renouf acquitted<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In a last minute reversal, German prosecutors and a district court judge in Dresden have ended their criminal case against Lady Mich\u00e8le Renouf, terminating a 32-month process, days before it was to come to trial.
Having arrested and charged Lady Renouf in 2018 immediately after her impromptu speech at a commemoration in Dresden, German prosecutors opened proceedings a year later under Germany\u2019s notorious \u00a7130\u00a0Volksverhetzung<\/em>\u00a0law alleging \u201cpublic incitement\u201d, but the case has now ended without Lady Renouf being found guilty of any offence. (She has had to pay only a modest fee for the costs of a translator.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cThis decision was extraordinary \u2013 almost sensational\u201d, says Wolfram Nahrath (Lady Renouf\u2019s German attorney) who points out that such an ACQUITTAL of the charges in a \u2018Holocaust\u2019-related trial is a first in Germany.\u00a0 The German authorities did not want to take the risk of putting Lady Renouf on trial, given her background and the German constitutional issues that would inevitably be highlighted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The \u00a7130\u00a0Volksverhetzung<\/em>\u00a0law has been used to jail German scientists, authors and even lawyers in recent years. \u2018Holocaust\u2019-related offences of \u2018public incitement\u2019 almost inevitably lead to long prison sentences.
Yet the unique circumstances of Lady Renouf and her 2018 Dresden speech led prosecutors to withdraw.
The\u00a0modeltrial.blogspot.com<\/a>\u00a0blog and related social media accounts will examine the extraordinary fabric of the Renouf case and explain why the German state chose to throw in the towel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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