BERLIN - The deputy leader of Germany's far-right National Democratic
Party has been convicted of defamation over a 2010 speech in which he
criticized a Holocaust memorial event.
The court also found Pastoers guilty of disparaging the memory of the deceased when he described the Holocaust memorial event — held in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament — as "theatre."
The charges of defamation and disparaging the dead are unrelated to the offence of Holocaust denial, which is also a crime in Germany.
Pastoers has a week to appeal the verdict.
The NPD has been trying to tone down its extremist image to avoid a possible ban.
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