The same year, Jef Elbers is summoned before the criminal court because of his song ‘Mohammed Ambras’, which had immediately been declared to be of a racist tendency by the Flemish newspaper De Morgen (The Morning). The song was written in response to the riots caused by immigrants in November 1997. It began with the words: ”I recently saw, in Anderlecht, the reality of the intifada; a bunch of brown hooligans engaged in the worst excess". Turns of the phrase such as "The underprivileged again made a race in their BMW’s in Schaerbeek" and "There has been stolen, in many stores; the police only made everything wet", were regarded as offensive and an enticement to racial hatred. The Prosecutor, Kathleen Desaegher, claimed the Internet was accessible to everyone and the song could be read and heard on the website of the Vlaams Blok Youth (VBJ) in 1997. Elbers states that he was not asked permission to put the song on the site, but that he would certainly have given his consent if he had been asked beforehand. Philip Claeys too stood trial. Being at that time president of the VBJ, he took responsibility for the content of the site. The case began with an official report by the brigade of the national police after a complaint had been made by a visitor to the site. Elbers, who didn't deny being the author of the song in question, suggested to the judge to sing the song. The judge didn't consider this to be necessary. The prosecutor believed that writer Elbers and editor Claeys violated the legislation on racism using phrases such as "a bunch of brown scum demolished everything."
