BRNO BLOCKS has proof of the neo-Nazi background of the 1 May march, calls for its ban
The BRNO BLOCKS Initiative has submitted evidence to the authorities and police of the neo-Nazi background to the march being convened on 1 May in Brno by the Workers’ Youth [1]. The Initiative is demanding that on the basis of this evidence the assembly and march be dispersed or at least that the route for the march be diverted so as to avoid the Roma quarter in Brno. People will be peacefully blockading the route of the march and will meet at 13:00 in Cejl street (right next to where, on Malinovské náměstí, an ecumenical service will be held at 12:30 as part of anti-Nazi resistance – Editors). Dozens of public figures have supported the nonviolent blockade.
A spokesperson for the BRNO BLOCKS Initiative handed over the evidence to Brno City Hall and the Czech Police. It proves that the gathering and march on 1 May in Brno will actually be a meeting of militant adherents of the banned neo-Nazi group National Resistance, even though it is officially organized by the Workers’ Youth (Dělnická mládež – DM), a branch of the Workers’ Social Justice Party. According to a legal evaluation [1], that means the gathering contravenes the law on assembly.
Proof of the neo-Nazi background of this event is the fact that the extremist National Resistance is calling its members to attend the event as if it were its own [2]. The web pages for the 1 May march have the same domain and founder as the National Resistance web pages [3].
The people who are the march organizers are further proof of its neo-Nazi character. Convener Erik Lamprecht (the DM chair) has threatened persons of Roma ethnicity in the media [4] and moves in circles where neo-Nazis give the Hitler salute [1]. Another organizer, Jiří Dudák (the DM secretary) has given speeches at National Resistance events in recent years [5]. Photographs from the server Antifa.cz (which was used as a resource by the Government of the Czech Republic in its case against the now-banned Workers’ Party) testify to Dudák’s sympathy for Nazism [5].
BRNO BLOCKS has also documented the fact that the aim of the event is to violate constitutionally-guaranteed rights and to promote hatred against people of other nationalities. This is directly evident from the invitations to the march [2].
“The submitted evidence is reason enough for the neo-Nazi event to be dispersed on the spot. If the authorities and police would like to avoid having to intervene against the respectable people, including famous personalities, who will blockade the march, they should disperse the National Resistance event,” says Irena Košíčková, a spokesperson for BRNO BLOCKS.
“If the police do not decide to disperse this meeting of neo-Nazi groups, they could at least decide to divert the route of the march. It is not acceptable that a parade chanting racist slogans marches through a quarter of Brno where Roma people live,” says Jiří Koželouh, a spokesperson for BRNO BLOCKS.
“In the past the Czech Police have changed the routes of pre-announced assemblies in the interests of security. That happened in the case of the Queer Parade in 2008 and 2010, both before the event and during the course of the event. If the police do not decide to diver the neo-Nazi march on 1 May, despite justified concerns that the march could endanger health and safety, they will be sending a signal to the citizens that extremists can look forward to above-standard advantages in Brno,” says Jolana Navrátilová, the organizers of Queer Parade Brno.
The BRNO BLOCKS Initiative is calling for a nonviolent blockade of the neo-Nazi march on 1 May in Brno at 13:00 in Cejl street. The nonviolent blockade is supported by dozens of Czech personalities, such as TV host Jan Kraus, the actress Táňa Fischerová, the actor, director and author Arnošt Goldflam, singer Iva Bittová, and others [6].
Brno’s famous HaDivadlo theater ensemble has joined the nonviolent blockade: “On the evening before the neo-Nazi march through Brno, on Saturday, 30 April, we will be performing a 1 May special, ‘Love Without Limits’ prior to our performance of a grotesque by Arnošt Goldflam, ‘At Home with Hitler, or, Stories from Hitler’s Kitchen’. We will read an official declaration explaining the protest,” the theater ensemble’s website reads.
More details can be found at www.brnoblokuje.cz
Notes:
[1] Evaluation of the correspondence between a gathering convened by Erikem Lamprecht on 1 May 2011 in Brno and the Law on Assembly (Czech only), http://www.romea.cz/dokumenty/posouzeni_s%20prilohou-1.pdf
[2] http://prvni-maj.cz///
[3] The registration record of the domain of the neo-Nazi web pages:
odpor.org:Created On:14-Apr-2006 07:04:42 UTCLast Updated On:18-Mar-2011 03:02:10 UTCExpiration Date:14-Apr-2013 07:04:42 UTCRegistrant Name:Pavel OulehlaRegistrant Organization:Pavel Oulehla
prvni-maj.cz:registered: 25.01.2011 03:48:15changed: 03.02.2011 22:09:19expire: 25.01.2012name: Pavel Oulehla(Both Oulehlas list the same residence – Editor’s Note)
Information regarding the connection between the web pages was reported by Czech Television: http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ivysilani/10324452510-udalosti-v-regionech-plus-brno/311281381950311/
[4] http://stisk.blog.idnes.cz/c/130418/Predseda-Delnicke-mladeze-Chceme-opravdovou-demokracii.html
[5] http://www.antifa.cz/content/kromerizsky-dudak
[6] http://brnoblokuje.cz/?page_id=127
