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Lüneburg (dpa / lni) - A 75-year-old has been sentenced to six months imprisonment in Lüneburg for two cases of denigration of the state and its symbols as well as for being asked to commit crimes.

The district court suspended the sentence on Tuesday, but the man has to pay 1200 euros.

He was not convicted of sedition.

The judgment can be appealed to the Federal Court of Justice within one week.

The public prosecutor had demanded a fine of 120 daily rates of 30 euros. According to the judgment of the court, the man is to be assigned to the Reichsbürger scene. He is said to have distributed leaflets in Seevetal in June 2020 in which the Federal Republic of Germany was denied the right to exist and Germany was described as an injustice state. The title of the leaflet said, among other things: “Merkel must go! - Long live the emperor! ».