Pole sentenced to community service for racist attack
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
26.07.2016 18:09
A court in Poznań, west-central Poland, has handed a two-year suspended jail sentence to a man who participated in the beating of a Syrian national in November.
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The District Court in Poznań, sentenced Zygmunt W. (full name withheld under Poland’s privacy laws), who in November last year participated in the racially motivated beating of a young Syrian man in the city.
The victim, George, was hospitalised with numerous injuries.
Judge Tomasz Borowczak said that the man was guilty, although he did not deliver a single blow.
The court held that the beating was purely a racist attack, since George is not a Muslim but a Christian.
Zygmunt W. was given a two-year suspended jail sentence, and was required to provide 40 hours of community service per month for the term of the sentence. He was also ordered to pay a PLN 3,000 fine. (rg)
Source: IAR