Cleared of incitement to hatred on the grounds of Tourette’s syndrome.

Skåne12 October, 2016 00:13

A 43-year-old woman in Helsingborg, which attacked the four young girls with an Arabic background with racist epithets to be cleared by the district court. Since the woman suffering from Tourette syndrome believes the right that she can’t control what she says, writing the Kvp.

It was in november last year as the woman screamed to the girls on a bus. She also hit one of the girls on the arm.

Several people heard what she screamed and a 43-year-old has admitted the documents. She was charged with incitement to racial hatred, or alternatively slander and in the third place for insult and call abuse.

the Woman has a medical certificate that she suffers from Tourette’s syndrome. The disability can among other things manifest themselves as involuntary outbursts of socially unacceptable coarse words and comments.

During the trial, referred the woman’s defender to an article in the Journal describing how Tourette’s syndrome can be expressed.

the Prosecutor has not shown that the woman was sufficiently aware, mean the district court.

the Woman’s "actions may have been a consequence of the involuntary tics that she has been unable to control," said the judgment, writing the Kvp.