After the Erdinger demonstration against the planned heating law, the former city councilor called the Greens the “new Jews”. His post referred to the incitement against the party, not the Holocaust. The judge disagreed.
The Munich district court sentenced Bernd Schreyer, former city councilor for the Green Party, to a fine of 6,000 euros for incitement to hatred. After the populist demonstration in Erding against the so-called heating law, Schreyer tweeted that the Greens were being incited as if they were the “new Jews” who had to be “exterminated.” “In doing so, you have established a connection to the state-ordered mass extermination of Jews during the National Socialist era,” judge Sonja Öttl accused him of.