For an English summary, see: ‘Wilders found guilty of insulting a group and incitement to discrimination,’ Press Release, 9 December 2016, What exactly had Wilders said, to merit prosecution? The trial concerned two sets of remarks made in The Hague around the time of the Dutch municipal elections in 2014. 1 x District court of The Hague, 9 December 2016, ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2016:15014. Wilders was convicted by a panel of three judges on 9 December 2016, in the first round of the second hate speech trial against him. To what extent should we tolerate the intolerant? This age-old question in legal theory has been tested on a daily basis by provocateur par excellence Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom ( Partij voor de Vrijheid).
