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The vast majority of commentators have failed to deal with the jurisdictional point which is how can it be right that this gentleman should be subject to "Regensburg District Court issuing a penal order (Strafbefehl) against MrWilliamson, finding him guilty of incitement to hatred and sentencing him to a fine of 12,000 euros(EUR). Following different appeals, in February 2012 the Nuremberg Court of Appeal discontinued the proceedings finding that the penal order did not meet the necessary requirements as it had not
contained a description of the relevant facts defining the offence.
In October 2012 the Regensburg District Court, at the public prosecutor’s request, issued anotherpenal order against Mr Williamson for incitement to hatred, sentencing him to a fine of 6,500 EUR. On an appeal by the applicant, the District Court convicted him of incitement to hatred and sentenced him to a fine of 1,800 EUR."

So far as I can see there has never been a trial - just the issuing a penal Orders against him - for comments he made in another country entirely.

He said nothing that is illegal in the UK or in Sweden.

EU citizens should be entitled to speak legally and freely in one EU country without the prospect of punishment in another EU country. Whatever he may have said and however offensive some might find it , he had the right to say what he did with a legitimate expectation that he would not be prosecuted.