Sentenced in absentia? And where is Chbaba B. now? From Expatica, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
BRUSSELS — Antwerp Court sentenced in absentia on Friday a 22-year-old Moroccan man to six months jail and a EUR 550 fine for accosting and threatening a Jewish man last year.It is the first time that such a case of anti-Semitism has led to a trial and a conviction, newspaper 'De Standaard' reported.
The suspect, identified only as Chbaba B., confronted a Jewish man in Statiestraat on 7 June 2004 and said: "I am Palestinian and I want to kill all the Jews". He then brandished a knife in front of the victim.
The Jewish man cycled to a nearby synagogue and alerted police, who later arrested the Moroccan. The suspect was found to be carrying a hacksaw.
Antwerp Court ruled that B. was driven by deep contempt and by feelings of hostility to Jewish people. "The facts bear witness to unacceptable intolerance and are a form of psychological violence," the ruling said.
sentenced in absentia on Friday a 22-year-old Moroccan man to six months jail and a EUR 550 fine for accosting and threatening a Jewish man last year.
Compare this to the 17 years (?) jail sentence the man who tried to firebomb an (empty) islamic centre in a post 9/11 'hate-crime' in Calif. received ...
Punishment should fit the crime, eh?
/sarc
Back in February a French family were walking through the medina in Fez in single file. The mother, making up the rear, was stabbed in the back by a Moroccan (she survived). He then caught up with the 17 year old son and stabbed him repeatedly in the back, 'with a surgical precision' according to his father who witnessed it. He died in two minutes. The murderer shouted 'allahu akbar', the two most vile words in the world.
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/050218/2005021825.html
http://www.france-echos.com/actualite.php?cle=5989
(in French)
Now, why isn't this man being deported?