The cantor praised the attack on Facebook. He was threatened with up to 15 years in prison for supporting and promoting terrorism. The prosecutor demanded an unconditional five-year sentence for him. He eventually left the court with a three-year suspended sentence with a probationary period of five years.
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According to the court, Kantor publicly praised the attacker on the Internet last March, who shot at two mosques in New Zealand after praying Muslims, killed 51 of them and injured dozens more. On his Facebook profile, Kantor shared an article about the shooting from a news server and added a comment: “Definitely a nice job for me,” is in the indictment. During the investigation of the case, it was also discovered that Kantor received a video recording the shooting in mosques over the Internet and sent it to his friends with positive comments.
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Kantor defended himself in court by saying that after reading the article, he thought it was good that the New Zealand police had detained the shooter so quickly, so he wrote a comment about the nicely done work. He meant the work of the police, and it never occurred to him that he would praise the shooter. However, the public prosecutor Martin Bílý pointed out in his closing speech that the shared article does not describe the work of the police. The fact that the metalworker Kantor has, among other things, a “ACAB” and “All cobs are bastards” inscriptions on his body does not testify to his positive opinion of the police. Kantor said he was sorry about what had happened. He apologized for his misunderstanding. He also deleted his Facebook account.
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The courts have already dealt with more similar cases, several of which were heard in Prague in June, for example. So far, the defendants are leaving the courts in the Czech Republic mostly with conditions. The court imposed the condition on Leoš Machálek, for example, who also praised the terrorist attacker from Christchurch in a commentary on the Internet, when he wrote under a video depicting the murder of Muslims in mosques, among other things, that the shooter is a “fighter”. The court also granted Renáta Pelikánová a condition for approving the attack in the mosques and for expressing praise to the archers. Another court sentenced Václav Klestil to another suspended sentence for approving the attack in New Zealand. He also wrote on Facebook under an article about the event of praise for the shooter and expressed his consent to his action.
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A right-wing extremist from Australia, Brenton Tarrant, shot dead 51 men, women and children in two mosques. He broadcast the event live on the Internet. He is in danger of life. He originally denied guilt, but unexpectedly confessed a year later.
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