Legal investigators from the extremism and terrorism division of the Prague police requested the Chamber of Deputies to extradite SPD chairman Tomio Okamura. They think him of committing the crime of inciting hatred towards a bunch of individuals or proscribing their rights and freedoms in reference to closing 12 months’s billboard marketing campaign. Police spokesman Jan Daněk knowledgeable ČTK concerning the request despatched through legal investigators to the decrease chamber this morning.
Debatable posters
The Space of Representatives has already won a request to extradite the chief of the SPD opposition motion Okamura for prosecution. Constitutional court cases had been additionally directed on the SPD marketing campaign closing 12 months.
The marketing campaign used e.g. a poster with the textual content “The shortcomings within the well being care sector may not be solved through imported surgeons”. On this can be a image of a dark-skinned guy with a knife in his hand. Any other poster with an image of 2 Roma boys with a cigarette was once created through synthetic intelligence and was once accompanied through the inscription “They are saying allow us to cross to university, however ours have it” at the hook….
Legal document
The Romeo group, Central Bohemian regional coordinator for minorities Cyril Koky and others already filed a legal grievance in August because of the arguable marketing campaign at the SPD, Okamura, Trikolora and PRO events and their entrepreneurs. In keeping with whistleblowers, it’s the poster with Roma boys is racist, it spreads hatred in opposition to the Roma minority and defames it.
“In the summertime, I filed a legal grievance towards the SPD marketing campaign. These days, on account of this, the police asked the extradition of its leader Tomio Okamura for legal prosecution What follows from this? That it is sensible to at all times struggle towards those folks and their practices! Most effective then will hatred towards race or ethnicity no longer grow to be the norm.” mentioned former Minister of Justice and Deputy Mayor of Prague Jiří Pospíšil lately (TOP 09).
Okamura: It was once about allegories
Okamura informed CTK up to now that the legal fees ascertain that the SPD “hit the nail at the head” with its posters. He referred to as the depiction an allegory. “As for that allegory, that poster on Wenceslas Sq., it was once just for someday for the filming of the video clip,” he repeated on CNN Prima Information closing 12 months.
Okamura continues to copy that those are allegories. These days within the Space of Representatives, he mentioned that it was once an try through the Spolu coalition to criminalize the opposition for its perspectives. In keeping with him, the request for extradition for prosecution follows Pospíšil’s legal grievance.
“It is ahead of the election, the Spolu coalition is attempting to stick in energy teeth and nail and seeking to criminalize the opposition for critiques,” claims Okamura, calling it an assault on unfastened speech and an try to silence him. “They need to prosecute me for a poster the place we made amusing in their hypocrisy and lies, despite the fact that it is very sour and unhappy,” learn out the federal government’s percentage of the EU migration pact.
He refuses to be related to racism
Okamura lately he once more refused to affiliate the SPD with racism or xenophobiareferred to as the marketing campaign an allegory. Additionally, the marketing campaign’s warnings have come true, Okamura mentioned, regarding knife assaults in Western nations and the new assault on Christmas markets in Magdeburg, Germany. “It’s an extradition request in line with a real caution of unlawful and out of control migration from Africa and Islamic nations to Europe,” Okamura defends himself.
He added that he’ll proceed to struggle for a protected Czech Republic as a result of “he does no longer need unlawful African and Islamic migrants right here.” Okamura additionally commented at the posters closing August at the X social community. “The SPD marketing campaign is an allegory of present occasions in our nation and reacts to the irresponsible selections of Petr Fiala’s asocial govt and co. This is a response to the adoption of the EU Migration Pact, due to which a crowd of as much as 30,000 migrants will drift into the Czech Republic annually, which Western Europe does no longer need (…) We are not looking for this right here. Austrian, Fiala et al. Sure. On this regard, our marketing campaign continues to be very sympathetic to what’s about to occur to our nation,” Okamura threatened.
Jurečka: Totally over the threshold…
Deputy High Minister and Minister of Well being Vlastimil Conflict (TOP 09) is looking ahead to Okamura to fortify the request for his extradition for prosecution. In my view, he’ll be in prefer, he mentioned on X.
“Racism is without doubt one of the maximum disgusting issues one particular person can do to any other. To make use of it along with a political marketing campaign, which may be completely false, is already a 2d abomination. Due to this fact, no person will probably be shocked that Okamura selected this trail. After all, this baby-kisser is already getting ready fiery speeches at the subject of censorship and totalitarianism, however hatred isn’t a program and refuting lies isn’t censorship. I be expecting that he’ll no longer cowardly disguise in the back of parliamentary immunity and fortify his extradition for prosecution. I will be able to surely fortify its newsletter,” mentioned Válek.
In keeping with the opposite Deputy High Minister, Marian Jurečka (KDU-ČSL), the case will have to be investigated. “I will be able to for sure vote for the discharge… In my opinion, the marketing campaign was once utterly excessive. I believe her irrelevant, racist. One thing like this in point of fact does no longer belong in a marketing campaign and a political struggle. We’re in a democratic, advanced nation the place there will have to be some legally fundamental rights of humanity, humanism. What Tomio Okamura and the SPD demonstrated, together with his protection, was once utterly past the light,” Jurečka informed newshounds.
Nerudová: That marketing campaign was once disgusting
“Sure, we’re for unencumber. In my view, I feel Mr. Okamura’s marketing campaign is excess of the threshold. Then again, neither I nor the Home is to be the pass judgement on and make a decision at the habits of the legal act within the case. And that’s exactly why the court docket has to make an even choice in this topic. As is not unusual in each and every state ruled through the rule of thumb of regulation,” Deputy Speaker of the Space of Representatives Olga Richterová answered at the X community for a metamorphosis (Pirates).
“I by no means touch upon any person’s legal court cases. We now have unfastened courts that even Mr. Okamura can not problem. Purely in my view – that marketing campaign was once in point of fact disgusting,” MEP Danuše Nerudová (STAN) mentioned at the X community based on the police request.
The request for Okamura’s extradition for legal prosecution is the 3rd such case within the time period of place of work of the present Space. The former two comparable to 2 long-standing legal circumstances, particularly the mayor of Prague Bohuslav Svoboda (ODS) and the chairman of the ANO motion Andrej Babiš. Each had been stripped in their immunity.
Svoboda, who confronted indictment relating to the previous town opencard, was once launched through the deputies in March 2022, and in June of the similar 12 months the court docket acquitted him. Additionally in March 2022, he was once extradited once more for prosecution relating to Čapí hnízdo and Babiš. He’s nonetheless looking ahead to the general verdictthe plaintiff appealed towards the acquittal judgment of the Prague Municipal Court docket from closing February, so the case will nonetheless be handled through the Top Court docket in Prague.