Vilnius, February 12, BNS–The Vilnius Municipal District Court Friday issued a verdict finding a woman from Vilnius guilty of openly calling for violence and of openly deriding and denigrating a group of people based on ethnicity.

The woman, D. B. L., born in 1944, was sentenced to 33 days imprisonment, but the court found her sentence had already been served, because she was temporarily jailed in December and January and was held in jail for failure to show up for court.

The court said the woman posted comments to the internet about Jews using computers located at Vilnius libraries.

She was accused of four criminal acts in connection with denigrating and deriding Jews. The court dismissed accusations of violation of seven criminal acts connected with causing insult because amendments to the criminal code went into effect in July of 2015 under which these were no longer criminal and not subject to criminal prosecution.

The accused shifted positions during the trial, first denying she had written the comments, then admitting it, after which she expressed her thoughts to the court on the Jewish people. She also tried to convince the court she hadn’t called for violence against Jews, nor denigrated the ethnic group, but the court wasn’t moved. Expert findings and testimony on the woman’s guilt did sway the court.

The court found neither any aggravating nor any extenuating circumstances in the case.

The verdict may be appealed within 20 days before the Vilnius District Court.