A twenty-year-old German woman has been sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for “hate speech” after she on social media called nine rapists “rapists”. She added “dishonourable pigs”.
The nine men were in 2024 convicted of the gang rape of a 14-year-old German girl. Despite the rape being highly brutal and involving multiple perpetrators, only one of the nine received an unconditional prison sentence – and that was only two years and nine months. The other eight received suspended sentences, community service, or short prison sentences that were suspended.
Worse to call the rapist a “pig” than to commit rape
When the verdict against the rapists became known, the woman wrote an indignant comment on social media in which she called the perpetrators “pigs” and “dishonourable”. This resulted in her being reported for “Volksverhetzung” (incitement to hatred against a population group).
The court found her guilty and sentenced her to four months’ unconditional imprisonment – a harsher sentence than that received by eight of the nine rapists.
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A 20-year-old German girl has been sent to prison for “hateful comments” against 9 immigrants convicted of gang-raping a 14-year-old German girl. Her crime? Calling them “pigs, rapists, without honor.”Even though semen from all 9 was found on the child, only 1 of… pic.twitter.com/SYkRXZHslp
— Francesco 🇮🇹 (@SaP011) April 2, 2026
The case has triggered debate in Germany about “inverted” justice – justice turned on its head. Critics believe this is a symptomatic feature of a rule-of-law state in which it is punished more severely to call rapists “pigs” than to commit rape.
The case is the latest in a series of controversial judgments in which ordinary citizens are punished harshly for “hate speech”, while perpetrators with foreign backgrounds receive lenient sentences for serious crimes.
Inverted justice
Criminal legislation against “hate speech” (Volksverhetzung in Germany, hets mot folkgrupp in Sweden, incitement to hatred in the UK, etc.) is increasingly used to suppress citizens’ expressions of the frustration they feel over crime linked to immigration.
Across Europe, we now have numerous examples of citizens being punished more severely for verbal or written expressions (“hate”, “racism”, “incitement to hatred”) than the actual perpetrators. This contributes to a widespread perception of “inverted justice”.
- In the United Kingdom, Darren Brady was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment for writing that “all paedophile Muslims should be hanged”, while many of those convicted in the Rotherham and Rochdale rape rings received short sentences or were released early (to make room for frustrated grandmothers convicted of “hate speech”).
- Sam Melia, also in the United Kingdom, received two years’ imprisonment for distributing “racist” stickers.
- A 68-year-old Swedish woman was sentenced to a fine and a suspended prison sentence for calling a group of Afghan rapists “cultural enrichers” and “animals”. The Afghans had gang-raped a 13-year-old girl. For this, they received short or suspended sentences.
- In several cases, Swedes have been convicted of “hets mot folkgrupp” after criticising rape statistics linked to immigrants.
- Dutch Peggy L., a mother from Limburg, was sentenced to 240 hours of community service for writing on Facebook that “the immigrants are raping our daughters” after a specific gang rape in the neighbourhood. The perpetrators received lenient sentences.
- In France, several ordinary citizens have received fines or short prison sentences for calling rapists “barbarians” or “animals”, while the offenders often receive reduced sentences due to “young age” and “integration problems”.
- A Belgian woman was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for calling Moroccan perpetrators in a gang rape “Muslim scum”. The convicted rapists received between two and five years’ imprisonment.