Overview
- The Amtsgericht Dresden provisionally discontinued the case after the imam agreed to pay €6,000 in six installments, with €2,000 to the state treasury and €4,000 to charities.
- Prosecutors had accused him of 13 counts of breach of trust for taking monthly sums from association donations between January 2019 and January 2020.
- He maintained his innocence in court after previously contesting a penal order that proposed a one-year suspended sentence.
- The judge cited the age of the allegations and the expected effort of hearing about ten witnesses as reasons for accepting the conditional discontinuation.
- Saxony’s domestic intelligence has monitored the imam and his association for alleged Islamist and antisemitic content, and the city is redirecting the planned mosque site to a children’s traffic-training area.