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On 4 June 2017, the conservative web site Breitbart reported that a 62-year-old woman in Berlin, Germany, had been fined for sharing an anti-migrant meme on Facebook: According to the newspaper Berliner Morgenpost, the meme came in the format of a question and answer: Question: Do you have anything against refugees? Answer: Yes: machine guns and hand grenades. (In German, Frage: Haben Sie etwas gegen Flüchtlinge? Antwort: Ja, Maschinenpistolen und Handgrananten.) A spokesperson for the Berlin criminal courts confirmed for us many of the factual claims made in the Breitbart article. A 62-year-old woman named in reports as Jutta B. was indeed found guilty of incitement to racial hatred, a crime known in Germany as Volksverhetzung, on 30 May 2017, although she could still appeal her conviction as of June 2017. She was indeed fined €1,350 (around $1,508) for sharing an anti-migrant post on her Facebook page, although the penalty was handed down by a court, not the government as Breitbart incorrectly reported. Germany has strict laws and penalties against what's known as hate speech, including incitement to hatred and Holocaust denial, and the woman could face up to five years in prison for her offense. Jutta B. was convicted under Section 130 (1) no.2 of the German Criminal Code, which states that:
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