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World Jewish News
Neo-Nazi Sentence Prolonged
12.01.2009
On Saturday, the Supreme Court (SC) of Latvia sentenced Andris Jordans, accused of inciting ethnic hatred and advocate of neo-Nazi ideas, to a term of imprisonment 6 months longer than the court of first instance.
Press Secretary of the Supreme Court Linda Priedite said to BNS that the SC has decided to tighten the verdict of first instance court in determining the final punishment, and sentenced Jordans to imprisonment for two years and one month, as it decided that the previous sentence had been calculated incorrectly.
After February 18, the Supreme Court decision can be appealed against in the SC Senate.
In March 2008, the Riga District Court sentenced Jordans to one and a half years in prison for incitement of ethnic hatred, and he was arrested in the courtroom.
According to the prosecution, in February 2007, Jordans, on his own initiative, came to the debate "Problems of Nazism, neo-Nazism and xenophobia in Latvia" organized by the Latvian Antifascist Committee, where he expressed his views. At the end of the debate, responding to questions, Jordans called himself a neo-Nazi and claimed: "Jews, kikes and gypsies are not people, which is why there aren't any in our organization," and that, ideally, his organization would conduct an ethnic purge in Latvia, eliminating everyone whom they do not consider a human being.
Now Jordans will have time to think over his words in solitude.
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