In the past, Kindl was convicted as a juvenile for digging into the apartment of a Romani family together with other companions and insulting its inhabitants with racist insults. He later received educational punishments for neglecting compulsory maintenance.
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“In view of the defendant’s previous conviction, it was no longer possible to impose a sentence other than unconditional,” said Pravoslav Polák, chairman of the Board of Appeal. Kindl was punished for expressing sympathy for a movement aimed at suppressing human rights and freedoms and for rioting.
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Kindl admitted in court that it was a provocation on his part. “I was drunk. But I have nothing to do with neo-Nazism. Hess is my role model, because on the contrary, he stood up to Nazism and tried to make peace. He was a martyr, which the current neo-Nazis think of him, “said Kindl, who bought the T-shirt 17 years ago in Germany on the anniversary of Hess’s death.
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According to the district court, his defense contradicts Hesse’s perception of history. “The defendant must have been aware of who Rudolf Hess was, his connection to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich,” the district court said, wearing a T-shirt with a portrait of a Nazi representative in a public place and in the presence of many others. sympathy for this movement.
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