English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson has been ordered to pay £100,000 in libel damages to a Syrian schoolboy. The anti-Islam activist, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, published two Facebook videos in response to a viral clip of Jamal Hijazi being attacked. He failed to convince the High Court his claims, such as Mr Hijazi attacking “young English girls”, were true. Mr Justice Nicklin found in Mr Hijazi’s favour after a trial earlier this year. The judge also ordered Mr Yaxley-Lennon to pay legal costs understood by the BBC to amount to about £500,000. ‘Target of abuse’ Mr Hijazi was filmed being attacked in the playground at Almondbury School in Huddersfield in October 2018. Shortly after the video of the assault went viral, Mr Yaxley-Lennon claimed in two Facebook videos that the teenager was “not innocent and he violently attacks young English girls in his school”. In clips viewed by nearly one million people, the 38-year-old also claimed Mr Hijazi “beat a girl black and blue” and threatened to stab another boy at his school, allegations denied by Mr Hijazi. “As was entirely predictable, the claimant then became the target of abuse which ultimately led to him and his family having to leave their home, and the claimant to have to abandon his education. “The defendant is responsible for this harm, some of the scars of which, particularly the impact on the claimant’s education, are likely to last for many years, if not a lifetime.”
via bbc: Tommy Robinson loses Jamal Hijazi libel case
siehe auch: Verleumdung eines minderjährigen syrischen Flüchtlings. Britischer Rechtsextremist muss 100.000 Pfund Schadensersatz zahlen. Tommy Robinson behauptete ohne Beweise, ein syrischer Junge habe Mitschüler bedroht. Der musste daraufhin seine Ausbildung abbrechen. Ein Gericht hat nun entschieden, dass dem Flüchtling Schadensersatz zusteht. Der britische Rechtsextremist Tommy Robinson muss 100.000 Pfund (117.000 Euro) Schadensersatz zahlen, weil er einen minderjährigen syrischen Flüchtling im Internet verleumdet hat. Das entschied ein Richter am Londoner High Court, wie die britische Nachrichtenagentur PA sowie die BBC berichten.