Police in Ústí are investigating a brutal attack by neo-Nazis that occurred
last Sunday morning during which one of the movement's promoters stabbed a
19-year-old who was objecting to that promotion on Mezní street in the Severní
Terasa neighborbood. The man was hospitalized with wounds to his chest and back,
the newspaper MF DNES reports today.
Tension is rising in Ústí nad Labem in advance of the planned neo-Nazi
demonstration there. According to MF Dnes, the attack may be related to exactly
that event.
Witnesses to the incident told the paper that the neo-Nazis were giving the
Nazi salute, and the youth whom they attacked allegedly shouted them down.
Police have not yet found the assailants. "The injured party said he was
attacked at a public transportation stop by promoters of the skinhead movement.
Allegedly he first sparred with them verbally, after which one of them stabbed
him with a knife in the chest and back. The aggrieved is said to be an opponent
of the skinhead movement," Ústí police spokesperson Veronika Hyšplerová told MF
DNES.
However, police officers have not yet interrogated the victim due to the
state of his health.
The stab victim is still hospitalized in Masaryk Hospital in Ústí, where he
was brought by ambulance on Sunday. "We admitted him with stab wounds, his
condition is stabilized. However, we are not going to make a specific statement
as to his injuries," Jiří Vondra, spokesperson for the Regional Health
Authority, which administers the hospital, told MF DNES.
MF DNES attempted to contact the stab victim, but he refused to give an
interview. Through his doctor he said that he fears for his life and wants to
remain anonymous. Friends of the injured youth have given two versions of why
the attack occurred.
In a similar case, the Prague High Court sent two other neo-Nazis, Lukáš
Vorobel and Martin Vachta, behind bars one month ago.
