"German far-right leader charged with inciting hatred"

[Prada]

http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila..._03252008.html

BERLIN (Reuters) - State prosecutors have charged the leader of Germany's most prominent far-right political party with inciting racial hatred for comments about a dark-skinned German soccer player before the 2006 World Cup.

Udo Voigt, head of the National Democratic Party (NPD), and two other senior party members circulated pamphlets and Internet messages ahead of the tournament showing a German number 25 shirt -- the number worn by Patrick Owomoyela.

The pamphlet's headline read: "White. Not just a football shirt color. For a real NATIONAL team."

Owomoyela, who plays for German top division club Werder Bremen, has a Nigerian father and a German mother. He was a late omission from the World Cup squad when Germany hosted the tournament two years.

"They (the NPD) implied that this player, and other players who are not white, are not worthy of representing the German nation," state prosecutors said in a statement on Tuesday.

Last year, police charged Voigt with inciting racial hatred after he recommended Adolf Hitler's former deputy, Rudolf Hess, for the Nobel peace prize. The NPD is represented in parliament in two German states.

(Reporting by Carolyn Palmer; editing by Keith Weir)

Source: Reuters US Online Report World News

[kfrost06]

http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila..._03252008.html

BERLIN (Reuters) - State prosecutors have charged the leader of Germany's most prominent far-right political party with inciting racial hatred for comments about a dark-skinned German soccer player before the 2006 World Cup.

Udo Voigt, head of the National Democratic Party (NPD), and two other senior party members circulated pamphlets and Internet messages ahead of the tournament showing a German number 25 shirt -- the number worn by Patrick Owomoyela.

The pamphlet's headline read: "White. Not just a football shirt color. For a real NATIONAL team."

Owomoyela, who plays for German top division club Werder Bremen, has a Nigerian father and a German mother. He was a late omission from the World Cup squad when Germany hosted the tournament two years.

"They (the NPD) implied that this player, and other players who are not white, are not worthy of representing the German nation," state prosecutors said in a statement on Tuesday.

Last year, police charged Voigt with inciting racial hatred after he recommended Adolf Hitler's former deputy, Rudolf Hess, for the Nobel peace prize. The NPD is represented in parliament in two German states.

(Reporting by Carolyn Palmer; editing by Keith Weir)

Source: Reuters US Online Report World News

Maybe the arseholes that gave the Nobel Peace prize to Yasser Arafat will be charged with hate crimes too.

[SMCengineer]

Why do they consider Udo Voight "far right"? Most of the platforms of the National Democratic Party of Germany are based on fascist and third position ideology.