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Hamburg Court Drops Qur'an-Burning Case After Charity Deal

Defense cast the 2022 act as a protest against Iran’s regime, not an attack on Muslims.

Hamburg, 3. Oktober 2022: Demonstration gegen das Islamische Zentrum
Die beiden Angeklagten (l. und hinten r.) in einem Gerichtssaal des Amtsgerichts St. Georg.
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Mann und Frau mit der Flagge des Irans unter dem Schah vor der Blauen Moschee in Hamburg, dem ehemaligen Islamischen Zentrum

Overview

  • The Amtsgericht St. Georg discontinued the case after an agreement to resolve it with symbolic donations.
  • Under the deal, a 75-year-old man will pay €300 to Amnesty International and a 36-year-old woman will pay €300 to Hamburg women’s shelters.
  • The defendants had contested earlier penalty orders that alleged a collective insult of religious beliefs.
  • According to the indictment, pages were torn from a Koran, burned, and stomped during an Aug. 6, 2022 protest outside the Islamic Centre Hamburg, and police intervened to prevent escalation.
  • The outcome ends the proceedings without a conviction or a full judicial ruling on the act’s legality.