Mais informação, bastante detalhada, no Klein Verzet, via Jihad Watch.
Amplify’d from kleinverzet.blogspot.com
Today Wilders accused Judge Tom Schalken of the Amterdam court that ordered the trial against him of mafia practices.
--Geert Wilders @Twitter
Newspaper De Pers today ran a story (NL) about expert witness Hans Jansen. It's about a blog posting of yesterday by Hans Jansen, who is a regular contributor of the Dutch group blog named Hoeiboei (NL). In yesterdays blog post Jansen wrote about a dinner for which he was invited only three days before his expert witness testimony in the trial against Geert Wilders (translation of this blog post by Hans Jansen here: Judge Schalken).
Hans Jansen was invited to a dinner by a 50 year old friend, Bertus Hendriks (NL), the friend however is also a leftwing activist for the Palestinan cause. Unknown to Hans Jansen were the other invited guests. It turned out several were judges and prosecutors, one of them was Tom Schalken. Of course Tom Schalken is not just a judge, he is one of the three judges who ordered the trial against Geert Wilders. During the dinner the judge repeatedly steered the conversation with Jansen to the Wilders trial. The judge clearly wanted to talk about it with Hans Jansen and influence his opinions about the trial. But Hans Jansen writes he was not very impressed by his obviously fake friendly way of convincing him.
In a way that can only add to conspiratorial mindset about this trial Judge Tom Schalken confirmed the dinner, and said there was not illegal about it. What was against the rules was that Hans Jansen spoke about the dinner publicly.
-- Hans Jansen @ Pow News on National Television yesterday about the dinner
The story has received wide public attention. Thus when todays trial begun, defense lawyer Moszkowicz refered to the press stories and asked the court to hear Mr. Hans Jansen again in court. The prosecution objected and argues that the incident was after the court ruled to prosecute Wilders and thus the incident was of no influence of prejudiced of judge Schalken. But Moszkowicz countered that he also wanted to know if the judge has tried to influence an expert witness in this trial and that his behavior could also clarify his earlier behavior in the court ruling that ordered the prosecution of Wilders.
Although, Hans Jansen was present in the court, the court rejected the request without motivation but in a rather cryptic way. They court said something like: they will not hear Mr. Jansen today, but that the issue will stay part of their deliberations and that they might hear him later if they deem that necessary.
After a short deliberation defense lawyer Moszkowicz requested for the second time a substitution court (Dutch: 'wraking') to ask for the disqualification of this court on grounds that he may not hear a key witness in this trial that can proof the innocence of Mr. Wilders and thus the defense can no longer assume the court is without prejudiced against Mr. Wilders.
Before the court of substitution defense lawyer Moszkowicz plead for dismissal of the court on three grounds:
- Remarks of judge Jan Moorse on Wilders usage of his right to remain silent
- Remarks by judge Jan Moorse that gave a value statement on Fitna
- The court’s rejection of hearing a key witness Mr. Hans Jansen again on how judge Schalken tried to influence him before the trial
Moszkowicz argues that "this is about the nature of the constitutional state" as this is a trial against a chosen parliamentary member. Later in his argument he would characterize the judge his behavior to be only expected in a banana republic. Later, when Geert Wilders addressed the court, Wilders declared he is considering criminal charges against Judge Schalken.
During the deliberation time of the substitution court Wilders has filed charges at a local police station against Judge Tom Schalken for trying to influence a court expert witness.
The substitution came at 16:00 with a ruling. All judges in the court case against Geert Wilders are DISMISSED! The trial has to be done all over by a new court...
I've made a translation of the blog post by Arabist Hans Jansen that lead to the dismissal of today’s court: Judge Schalken (original Dutch: Hoeiboei.blogspot.com - Schalken, raadsheer).
See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/dlsz
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