Category: Middle East

The protected species will eliminate us, it’s the law!

Belgian nationalist convicted of ‘hate speech’ for factual lecture on migrant crime

A nationalist activist and former Belgian MP has been convicted of “hate speech” over a lecture where he presented migrant crime statistics and scientific data on racial differences.

Dries Van Langenhove, 33, who was previously sentenced to one year in prison for “offensive” memes posted by other people in a private group chat, faced the Correctional Court of First Instance in Leuven on Tuesday over a lecture he made at KU Leuven in February 2024.

Mr Van Langenhove was found guilty of one count of “incitement to hatred or violence against a group on grounds of nationality, so-called race, skin colour, origin or ethnic descent”, and one count of “dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or racial hatred”.

This conviction from the story  posted earlier (Dries Van Langenhove being convicted for speaking a truth that was too uncomfortable in Belgium) is insane:
“These two paragraphs of my verdict are crucial for everyone to read and understand.

“Even if all of the statements made by Van Langenhove are based on scientific evidence and statistics, it makes no difference to the criminal intent. Van Langenhove is not charged with spreading false information. He is charged with presenting facts in a way that incites hatred against persons on the grounds of one or more of the protected criteria in the Anti-Racism Law.”

A very sad announcement.

I have just been convicted a second time for ‘hate speech’ and it is only due to a technicality that I could not immediately be sent to jail —to the judge’s frustration.

In an ironic turn of events it’s actually thanks to my previous prison sentence… pic.twitter.com/76xOy6qnA4

— Dries Van Langenhove (@DVanLangenhove) May 26, 2026

1⃣”For Van Langenhove to have committed a crime, it is not necessary for him to have incited concrete acts of hate or violence. It suffices that others are incited to take on a general attitude of intolerance or disapproval regarding a group protected under the criteria of the Anti-Racism Law.”

2⃣This means you can go to jail for “inciting hatred” even if your statements were 100% factual (see 1⃣) and even if you did NOT incite concrete acts of hate (see 2⃣).
The benchmark of “inciting hatred” , a crime punishable by prison, is thus “saying something that has the potential of inciting someone to have a general attitude of disapproval regarding a protected group”.

This means literally any criticism of mass migration is now a punishable offence. If you cite a statistic, and someone could potentially think less of a protected group (like migrants) because of it, you can be jailed.
The craziest part is that there is no defence possible against this. I brought the scientific studies that I cited to court, but the judge didn’t care 1⃣.

I also proved that the hundreds of students present at the lecture included students of all different political affiliations, and everyone was able to voice their opinion or ask questions. The lecture went very calmly, so obviously nobody was incited to hatred.

But this too did not matter 2⃣, because if the judge says he believes there is the possibility that someone COULD be incited to “a general attitude of disapproval”, this is enough for the judge to send me to jail, even without any evidence.

I’m telling you this to warn you that by the time these hate speech laws have come into place, it’s already too late. You will NEVER be able to beat these laws in court. You have to stop them before they are implemented. Let my fate be your warning.”

– Dries Van Langenhove