An appeals court in Slovakia has dismissed a lower court ruling that convicted the leader of a far-right party for the illegal use of neo-Nazi symbols. But the country’s Supreme Court still finds Marian Kotleba guilty of sympathizing with neo-Nazism and gives him a six-month suspended sentence. Kotleba will lose his parliament seat with the ruling. Kotleba, head of the far-right People’s Party Our Slovakia, stood trial after he presented three families with checks for 1,488 euros ($1,633) on March 14, 2017, on the anniversary of the Slovak wartime state’s establishment in 1939. The number 1,488 has a symbolic meaning for neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
via times of israel: Slovak far-right leader guilty of neo-Nazi sympathy, but jailing overturned