Prosecutor Zbyněk Polívka filed charges against Matouš Bulíř and Pavel Kozák last March.
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Bulíř was sentenced by a court to 12 months with a probationary period of two years, Kozák by eight months, also with a two-year probationary period. Czech Television drew attention to the verdict.
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Prosecutor Zbyněk Polívka will not appeal. “The verdict corresponds to our proposal, it corresponds to the indictment: the fact and the legal evaluation were preserved by the court. As for the punishment, it is a little milder, but otherwise it corresponds to our proposal. The court reflected the degree of action, when the one who has a stricter punishment was the initiator of the proceedings, “said Polívka.
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Boards with insulting inscriptions were discovered by people in the memorial complex at the turn of May and June 2018. The Romea.cz website drew attention to the case at that time, according to which there was an inscription on the plaques: “Monument dedicated to the historically last working Roma in the Czech Republic”. Romea said that a sign on the memorial was placed by the nationalist association We Against All.
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“The verdict in this case, although we have been waiting for it for a really long two years, pleasantly and I must say – even after a number of failures in comparable cases – unexpectedly surprised me. It is a satisfaction and also a kind of assurance that similar pests of this company can be detected and punished, ”said the director of the Museum of Romani Culture Jana Horváthová in a press release on Wednesday. The museum on the site of the former camp is building a memorial to the Holocaust of Roma and Sinti in Bohemia.
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According to historians, from August 1942 to May 1943, 1308 Roma – men, women and children – passed through the camp in Lety, 327 of them died in it and over five hundred ended up in Auschwitz. Less than 600 Roma prisoners returned from the concentration camps after the war. According to expert estimates, the Nazis murdered 90 percent of Czech and Moravian Roma. Archaeologists have found that the largest part of the Roma concentration camp in Lety was in the area of the former pigsty.
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