2012
Court cases on racist - hate crime
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Austria
There are convictions because of incitement to hatred and under the prohibition law.
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Bulgaria
There is one case reported for the first half of 2010.
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Cyprus
There have been no Court decisions on racist crime
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Denmark
n/a
- Finland
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France
In 2009 tribunals registered 3344 cases of racist, anti-religious and anti-Semitic crimes, in 2008 4117 cases were registered.
- Germany
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Greece
No official data available.
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Hungary
4 decisions.
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Ireland
Gaps in data collection make ascertaining the number of crimes involving racism/hate-crime brought to court very difficult. However “Information provided by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) shows that last year there were 122 racist incidents, including harassment, minor assaults and public order offences.” – Irish Examiner, 2011.
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Italy
9 (year 2008).
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Poland
In first six months of 2012 courts issued 22 verdicts in cases involving racism.
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Portugal
There is no data available on the number of court cases on racist or hate crimes.
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Romania
There is no official data collection and information gathering mechanism that addresses specifically racist hate crime.
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Slovenia
Courts do not keep any systemic records on basic criminal offences motivated by ethnic/racial or religious intolerance which does not provide coherent data.
- Spain
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Sweden
According to the Criminal Law, the Chancellor of Justice (Justitieombudsmannen, JK), received 97 reports of incitement to racial hatred in 2011 and decided to initiate investigations in 3 cases.