London - Mayor Found Guilty For Nazi Comment
London - Mayor Ken Livingstone was found guilty for bringing his office into disrepute for comparing a Jewish reporter to a concentration camp guard.
Adjudication Panel would decide what penalty to impose after a three-man panel ruled against Livingstone in a complaint brought by a Jewish group.
The mayor, one of Britain's most colorful and popular politicians, could theoretically be suspended from his job and barred from holding public office for five years, although a formal rebuke is seen as more likely.
Adjudication Panel would decide what penalty to impose after a three-man panel ruled against Livingstone in a complaint brought by a Jewish group.
The mayor, one of Britain's most colorful and popular politicians, could theoretically be suspended from his job and barred from holding public office for five years, although a formal rebuke is seen as more likely.
posted by VOS IZ NEIAS @ 2/24/2006 07:47:00 AM
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At 7:56 AM,
Anonymous said…
Livingstone sparked the rumpus when a reporter Oliver Finegold of the city's Evening Standard newspaper cornered him outside a private party in February 2005.
When the reporter identified himself as working for the Standard, a paper loathed by the mayor, Livingstone asked: "Have you thought of having treatment?" and then: "What did you do? Were you a German war criminal?"
Finegold said he was Jewish and found the remarks offensive, to which Livingstone replied that by trailing him, the reporter was acting "like a concentration camp guard -- you are just doing it because you are paid to."
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