Norman Lowell was born on 29 July 1946 and is a Maltese ultranationalist writer and head of Imperium Europa, a far-right political party.
14 Facts About Norman Lowell
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Norman Lowell contested the first European Parliament elections that were held in Malta on 12 June 2004, obtaining 1,603 first-count votes from a total of 250,691 votes cast.
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Norman Lowell again contested the European Parliamentary elections in Malta on 6 June 2009.
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Norman Lowell received 3,559 votes, out of 322,411 cast, for just over one percent of the vote.
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In May 2019, Norman Lowell contested the European Parliament election.
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Norman Lowell is a staunch supporter and admirer of Carmelo Borg Pisani, the Maltese-born Italian Fascist, who, on the grounds that British rule was destroying Malta's Latin soul, advocated the expulsion of the British and joined, to this effect, the National Fascist Party.
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Norman Lowell uses the parlance of white nationalists elsewhere and states that he is a racialist.
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Norman Lowell is an artist in his own abstract style, which he labels "Dionysian Action Painting".
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Norman Lowell describes it as an ancient Greek art form based around "intoxication, frenzy, ecstasy, barbaric instincts".
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Norman Lowell says it captures feelings, rather than figures, and is the sublimation of the beast in man into art.
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On 27 March 2008 Norman Lowell was sentenced to a two-year jail term, suspended for four years, due to his conviction on three charges of racial hatred, and one charge of insulting the President of Malta.
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Norman Lowell won the case relating to insults hurled at the President of Malta on grounds of freedom of speech but was ordered to pay a fine of 500 Euros for racist terminology against Jews.
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On 10 January 2006 Norman Lowell filed a civil libel suit against Malta Today editor Saviour Balzan.
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On 30 April 2019, during a meeting of his party, Imperium Europa, Norman Lowell compared Auschwitz concentration camp to the "Disneyland of Poland".