Doris Möller-Scheu
Prosecutor's Office in Frankfurt am Main
Michael Schjodt [Schjødt] - Solicitor
Flemming (left) Soren Juhler
Peter Skaarup - Danish People's Party
Jesper Steinmetz (news anchor): A 32 year old Danish man believes that he is wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he could not go to jail for here in Denmark.
Right now, he nevertheless is behind bars in Elsinore and waiting to be extradited to Germany in a racism case.
Here he appears in public for the very first time.
Speaker: Danish police and German prosecutors came to arrest him an early morning in August, right before the eyes of his 6 year old daughter.
Flemming: I am standing there in my boxer shorts, and say good morning right? Then they were inside the house and all over the place, and then I heard them say 'European Arrest Warrant'.
Speaker: Several boxes of music CDs were seized from Flemming's house. In Germany a judge had issued a so-called 'European Arrest Warrant' on him, suspected of selling Nazi music to German customers.
In one of the songs on this CD sounds: When there are no more Jews in the World, our Germany will finally be free again.
This is punishable by up to five years in prison in Germany, in Denmark however no one has ever been convicted to more than a 60 days suspended sentence for racism.
Doris Möller-Scheu[spokeswoman Prosecutor's Office in Frankfurt am Main]: As he doesn't live here, this is the only possibility to eh, to get him to the court. They produce it in Denmark, because they don't fear punishment in Denmark.
Flemming: On what basis are they to judge me for something I have not done?
[The fact is that Flemming had denied to have participated in the sale of the offending material, which TV2 did not make clear.]
So, their law is quite absurd in relation to ours right, and you can get a prison term there for things which you would not even earn you a fine here in Denmark.
Mikael Skjodt: My client has not been present in Germany when the city court judge in Germany decided that he should be extradited, and when the matter comes to Denmark, we do not even have to look at the evidence, just execute the extradition.
And I think that is problematic.
Søren Juhler: How did it feel to find out that in the evidence against you, there is a clause which allows for life imprisonment?
Flemming: Yes I must say it was a shocking realization. It took me a couple of days to get used to, but it was something I found out much later in the process.
Speak:The European Commission calls the European Arrest warrant 'an imprisoning success', which was adopted in Denmark, as part of the terror package in 2002. ['imprisoning' = word play in Danish 'imprisoning' also means fascinating]
Peter Skaarup[Danish People's Party]:
It looks as if there is no lower limit as to how trivial a case can be in which we accept to arrest and send people out of the country to appear in courts in other countries for relatively minor crimes, and I think that this is a slippery slope.
Jesper Steinmetz: The extradition has been approved by the Ministry of Justice, but has now been appealed to a higher court. [Ostre Landsret]
Thanks to the Advanced Culture of Islam
When the Arab Muslims, a collection of backward, nomadic warrior tribes who did not even have a fully developed script, conquered Egypt, Syria and Iran, they took control over some of the world's largest centres of accumulated knowledge.
To say that 'Muslims' or 'Islamic culture' created the civilizations of the Middle East can be compared to an illiterate person storming into the planet's largest library, killing all the librarians and then claiming to have written all the books there.
The cultural superiority of the Middle East in relations to Europe did not begin with Islam's entry into the area. In fact, it ended with it. One of the great riddles of history is how this once-dynamic region could become the world's number one problem spot. It so happens that this decline coincides with the region's Islamization, although some would claim that it had already started before this. Islam's much-vaunted 'Golden Age' was in reality just the twilight of the conquered
pre-Islamic cultures, an echo of times passed. Source
Samantha Gailey / Geimer 13
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"Since 2005 Liberté pour l’Histoire has fought against the initiatives of legislative authorities to criminalize the past, thus putting more and more obstacles in the way of historical research. In April 2007, a framework
decision of the European Council of Ministers has given an international dimension to a problem that had until then been exclusively French. In the name of the indisputable and necessary suppression of racism and anti-Semitism, this decision established throughout the European Union new crimes that threaten to place on historians prohibitions that are incompatible with their profession. In the context of the Historical Encounters of Blois in 2008 dedicated to “The Europeans”,
Liberté pour l’Histoire invites the approval of the following resolution