Czech police show interest in Internet page insulting foreigners

Czech police have showed interest in the Internet page www.chceteje.cz (do you want them) insulting foreigners whose authors say they are fighting against immigration of foreigners to the Czech Republic.

The website’s name is designed to parody a campaign ridiculing neo-Nazism that was carried out under the title “do you want them.”

Marcel Winter, chairman of the Czech-Vietnamese society, said today he intended to file a criminal complaint against the authors of the website that was promoted by the nationalist ultra-right National Party.

The website features, for instance, pictures of people from Russia, Lebanon and Vietnam, describing their alleged illnesses and negative qualities accompanied by the question “Immigrants: do you want to have them at home?” The website insults the foreigners and provides space for xenophobic views about them.

Czech police have started investigating the page.

“The IT crime department has started to examine whether the content of the website corresponds to the Czech legal order. However, it is premature to say whether the law has been violated or not,” criminal police spokeswoman Pavla Kopecka told CTK today.

The organised crime police unit has also been informed about the webpage. Its spokesman Pavel Hantak said, however, that no official criminal proceedings had been started yet.

“Laws should be observed in democracy and the freedom of speech should not be abused for the spread of xenophobia and racism. I will thus file a criminal complaint against the authors and operators of the www.chceteje,cz,” Winter said in a statement today.

According to the National Party press department, the project is an answer to party chairwoman Petra Edelmannova’s appeal that has come up with the slogan Stop immigration – start of repatriation designed to stop the influx of foreigners to the Czech Republic.

It is another controversial project that has appeared on the National Party’s website. Recently the party also published on its website Fitna, an anti-Ialamic documentary by Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders.

The film was published on the Internet in March and has provoked a wave of criticism in the Islamic world. According to Winter, the published appeals are a demonstration of racism and xenophobia and are expediently aimed against foreigners living in the Czech Republic and those who intend to come to the country.

Winter pointed out that foreigners who come to the Czech Republic usually work at factories and companies in which more than 150,000 employees are lacking at present.