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Czech Police charge six DSSS adherents with promoting Nazism

22 October 2012
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Six ultra-right sympathizers are facing charges of promoting neo-Nazism during a 1 May march through the city of Brno. On that day police arrested a total of 15 people, 13 of them promoters of the extreme right and two of them opponents of the extreme right.

“Charges have been filed for the offense of founding, supporting and promoting a movement aimed at suppressing human rights and freedoms”, said Petra Vedrová, spokesperson for the Brno Police. The defendants include one girl and one Slovak citizen.

“[The Slovak man] was sentenced earlier for wearing illegal inscriptions on his clothing during a march in Krupka. This time he could receive sentencing without the possibility of parole,” Miloslav Machát, commander of the police intervention in Brno, said previously.

Vedrová says a 30-year-old German man who gave the final speech at the right-wing radicals’ rally has been charged with the same offense. Should he be found guilty, he faces up to three years in prison.

The defendants, including Workers’ Youth (Dělnická mládež – DM) chair Erik Lamprecht, are said to have committed the offense by carrying a banner reading “Rise Up Europe! – For a United Europe of Our Nations”. Representatives of the Workers’ Social Justice Party (Dělnická strana sociální spravedlnosti – DSSS) consider the charges unjustified.

Experts on extremism believe otherwise, however. For example, political scientist Miroslav Mareš said the slogan probably was a reference to the German slogan “Rise Up Germany”.

The 1 May march by approximately 400 neo-Nazis in Brno was counter-protested by 1 500 people. Police made a total of 15 arrests from both camps. Two young extremists who attacked police officers were charged on 2 May with committing violence against official persons and face up to four years in prison.

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