Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts: Supreme Courts (Italy) - Corte di Cassazione

Date: 03/28/2008

Subject: The Court – although stating once again that the concept of discrimination and racial hatred must be reconstructed in the light of the UN Convention of New York and of Directive number n. 43/2000 – considers groundless the crime of instigation to racial hatred with regard to the mayor of Verona, who was accused of having promoted a collection of signatures to expel gypses from the town

Original language: Italian

Classification: Equality - Art. 21 Non discrimination

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