Libyan Abu Ramadan was found guilty of inciting hatred against people because of their religion or ethnicity. In addition to a conditional prison sentence, the court sentenced him to expulsion from the country.
The Libyan preacher Abu Ramadan in front of the regional court in Biel.
cog. · The Biel Regional Court has found Libyan lay preacher Abu Ramadan guilty of fraud and racial discrimination. The court sentenced the 68-year-old to a conditional prison sentence of 14 months on Tuesday. As SRF reported on Tuesday evening, the judge also sentenced Abu Ramadan to six years’ expulsion from the country.
charge a year ago
In the summer of 2021, the Bernese Jura-Seeland public prosecutor’s office brought charges against the Libyan because Ramadan in July 2017, during his sermon in a mosque in Biel, incited hatred against people because of their religion or ethnicity in Arabic. Abu Ramadan has repeatedly expressed the wish that these groups of people should be destroyed. The public prosecutor then opened criminal proceedings and four years later accused him of racial discrimination.
The agronomist and longtime preacher was also accused of receiving around 590,000 francs in social assistance between the end of 2003 and the beginning of 2017 and concealing income. Abu Ramadan was therefore charged by the prosecutor and now found guilty. Ramadan denied the allegations. The convicted person can withdraw the sentence.