Belgian Nationalist Given 12 Month Suspended Sentence Because Someone Else Shared a ‘Racist’ Meme
22nd June 2025
Belgian conservative-nationalist Dries Van Langenhove has again been sentenced on appeal to one year in prison as a suspended sentence for what the judge said were violations of the Racism and Negationism Act.
We’ll give you a ‘suspended sentence’ so that if you open your mouth wrong we can sling you in jail without any bother.
The sentence stems from racist memes that were not even posted by him, but by members of a group chat he administrated seven years ago.
The sentence was delivered today by the Court of Appeal in Ghent, although Van Langenhove does not accept the sentence, and the case now goes into cassation.