Czech Police say hate speeches in Nový Bydžov legal, court convicts same words in Krupka

The Czech Police have completed several weeks’ work of evaluating the speeches given at last month’s neo-Nazi gathering in Nový Bydžov and have concluded that none of them broke the law. Ivana Ježková, police spokesperson for the Hradec Králové region, shared the results with news server Romea.cz today.

“I do not have any findings that the law was broken in that case. The matter was reviewed by our specialists from the anti-extremist unit and from the Organized Crime Detection Unit, and they came to the conclusion that the law was not broken,” Ježková said.

The police have thus agreed with claims made by Czech Interior Ministry bureaucrats at a regularly scheduled meeting with civil society representatives. The bureaucrats said they had found no evidence of anything that would have justified either the dispersal of the neo-Nazi gathering on the spot in Nový Bydžov or a police intervention against it.

At the Nový Bydžov gathering, in addition to his usual instigation of hatred against Roma people, Marián Mišún, a representative of the People’s Party “Our Slovakia” (Lidové strany naše Slovensko – LSNS) said the following:

“… I would like to greet you… on behalf of an important fighter against the Gypsy parasites, corrupt politicians, and Zionists, Marián Kotleba… in Bohemia you have a serious Gypsy problem today that must be radically addressed as soon as possible. In Slovakia, however, what we have can’t even be called a Gypsy problem anymore, but a Gypsy terror reminiscent of a second Kosovo in many respects…. If you don’t wake up and take a stand to resist the corrupt politicians and Gypsy parasites, it is more than certain that given the high birth rate of Gypsies, the same fate awaits the Czech Republic as is occurring today in Slovakia: Gypsy illiterates have occupied the post of mayor and will gradually start governing Slovakia… On top of it all the Gypsy asocials are happily murdering, raping and thieving… Today we can see how Europe is being torn apart by these weird birds with their slanted eyes… Thanks to multicultural education, the most beautiful women in Europe, Czech and Slovak girls, are losing their pride with various immigrants from exotic countries. It is literally considered modern today for a young European woman to find herself some weird, odd-colored monkey who doesn’t know how to work…”

One month after the Nový Bydžov rally, another neo-Nazi march took place in the town of Krupka. There police waited until the neo-Nazi event was over to arrest another LSNS member, Václav Čada. The Teplice District Court gave him a six month suspended sentence with two years’ probation for inciting hatred against an ethnic group in his speech. Presiding judge Roman Dobeš said the court had also confiscated several items from Čada such as a badge, a baseball cap, a belt, and a t-shirt with banned Nazi symbols on them. The court also learned that Čada has the eagle of the Nazi Third Reich tattooed on his body.

A transcript of the essential parts of Čada’s speech shows that he was sentenced for the same words about “asocial Gypsy parasites”, in connection with the Nazi greeting “Na stráž!” (“To duty!”), that were used by Marián Mišún in Nový Bydžov. These are the same words police specialists took several weeks to label legally unobjectionable.

Čada said the following in Krupce, in addition to a few other things:

“Friends, I want to give you a Slovak greeting, which will not bother the cops here. Friends from Bohemia, to duty [Na stráž]! We have come together here to say ‘No’ to the asocial Gypsy parasites harming decent working people, robbing them and raping old women… I therefore ask the Czech and Slovak governments to start addressing the asocial Gypsy parasites.”

Zdeněk Ryšavý, executive director of ROMEA, o. s., told news server Romea.cz: “I simply do not understand what method the police officers are using to evaluate these speeches. The speech by Marián Mišún in Nový Bydžov was even more racist than the speech by the Slovak representative in Krupka. In addition to his generalizing insults against Roma people, he also used words like ‘odd-colored monkey’ and used slurs against Vietnamese people. The work of the Czech Police and the bureaucrats at the Czech Interior Ministry has taken a turn for the worse. Right now, in our view, they are doing a terrible job.”

Mišún also greeted the crowd in Nový Bydžov with the “Na stráž!” (“To duty!”) greeting. This greeting was used by the Hlinka Guard, a paramilitary organization of Hlinka’s Slovak People’s Party (Slovenská lidová strana – SLS), which during the regime of the WWII-era fascist Slovak state actively contributed to the persecution of anti-Nazi Slovak people, Czech people, Jewish people, and Roma people, including their transport to Nazi camps for annihilation.

The Slovak Police immediately arrest anyone who uses this greeting in public. For example, in March 2009, Slovak Police officers arrested the former leader of the now-defunct Slovak Solidarity-National Party (Slovenská pospolitost – Národní strana – SPNS), Marián Kotleba, during a neo-Nazi gathering on Hodžov Square in Bratislava, for ending his speech with the words: “Let’s test democracy: To duty!” Police officers then led him out of the crowd of neo-Nazis and arrested him.

At the start of March 2006, the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic dissolved the SPNS because it was a neo-Nazi, unconstitutional party. “In Nazi Germany, people had the opportunity to defend themselves in court… Today that opportunity does not exist in pseudo-democratic Slovakia,” Kotleba said at the time.

The party’s program included, among other things, the abolition of democracy and the establishment of a “professional state based on Christian, national and social principles”. Party representatives considered Freemasons, liberals and Zionists to be the enemies of the state.

Editor’s Note: Several hours after this article was first published, Ivana Ježková called us at 14:58 CET to say that her colleagues had read it and given her new information. She says police have submitted the speech given by the Slovak neo-Nazi in Nový Bydžov to the state prosecutor for evaluation and that the result is not yet known. Readers are kindly asked to draw their own conclusions about this suddenly appearing information.