Wilders pays damages to Danish cartoonist

Geert Wilders, leader of the anti-immigration PVV party, is to pay the Danish cartoonist Koert Westergaard €7,500 damages for using his drawing in his controversial short film Fitna without the author’s permission, reports magazine De Journalist on Thursday.

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