{"id":29202,"date":"2025-07-29T13:41:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/?p=29202"},"modified":"2025-07-29T13:41:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:41:41","slug":"germany-justice-and-prejudice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/germany-justice-and-prejudice\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany, Justice, and Prejudice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Gera Regional Court will not open a trial against controversial administrative judge Bengt Fuchs. The public prosecutor&#8217;s office had accused him of incitement to hatred.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In August 2019, Fuchs allegedly wrote a comment under a Facebook post in a student fraternity group that was deemed incitement to hatred. Fuchs allegedly equated the Sinti and Roma ethnic groups with traveling gangs of thieves. In the group, the user &#8220;Bengt-Christian Fuchs&#8221; had described the group as &#8220;rotational Europeans with a weakness in property attribution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If this is not racist, what is?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Richter droht keine Strafverfolgung. In: TAZ&gt; 28.07.2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/taz.de\/Veraechtliche-Worte-gegen-Sinti-und-Roma\/!6103883\/\">https:\/\/taz.de\/Veraechtliche-Worte-gegen-Sinti-und-Roma\/!6103883\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Verfahren gegen Skandal-Richter geplatzt. In: Bild. 25.07.2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bild.de\/regional\/thueringen\/nach-schmaehung-von-sinti-und-roma-verfahren-gegen-skandal-richter-geplatzt-68836663a693874dc46f76ea\">https:\/\/www.bild.de\/regional\/thueringen\/nach-schmaehung-von-sinti-und-roma-verfahren-gegen-skandal-richter-geplatzt-68836663a693874dc46f76ea<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kein Straf\u00adpro\u00adzess gegen Richter Bengt Fuchs. In: LTO. 25.07.2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lto.de\/recht\/nachrichten\/n\/3kls122js2502324-lg-gera-bengt-fuchs-volksverhetzung-hauptverfahren-eroeffnung-abgelehnt\">https:\/\/www.lto.de\/recht\/nachrichten\/n\/3kls122js2502324-lg-gera-bengt-fuchs-volksverhetzung-hauptverfahren-eroeffnung-abgelehnt<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Doch kein Gerichtsverfahren gegen umstrittenen Geraer Richter &#8211; Antiziganismus-Stelle mit scharfer Kritik. In: MDR. 28.07.2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdr.de\/nachrichten\/thueringen\/ost-thueringen\/gera\/richter-fuchs-kein-gerichtsverfahren-100.html\">https:\/\/www.mdr.de\/nachrichten\/thueringen\/ost-thueringen\/gera\/richter-fuchs-kein-gerichtsverfahren-100.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gera Regional Court will not open a trial against controversial administrative judge Bengt Fuchs. The public prosecutor&#8217;s office had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/bengt-fuchs-102-resimage_v-variantBig24x9_w-2560.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[597,15],"tags":[737,63],"class_list":["post-29202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-germany","category-news-western-europe","tag-justice","tag-racism"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/bengt-fuchs-102-resimage_v-variantBig24x9_w-2560.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29204,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29202\/revisions\/29204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}