“The appeal in the case was filed by the defendant, ie the Ministry of Finance,” said Pavla Hájková. Peroutka’s granddaughter Terezie Kaslová, who insists on apologizing for other presidential statements, including those described by the Board of Appeal as “judging courts”, is also planned to turn to the Supreme Court.
According to the Chairman of the Board of Appeal, Tomáš Novosad, it is not possible for the state to interfere without any remedy with the personal rights of anyone, if such an intervention is unjustified.
“We have no doubt that the state is responsible for the president. The path to redress must be present even if such a statement is made by the President of the Republic. There is no such thing as being outlawed, above the law, “Novosad said in July.
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The resort has no plans to apologize
The ministry started running for seven days on Tuesday, by the end of which it must send Kaslová an apology letter. However, the resort does not yet plan to apologize for President Zeman, the Supreme Court wants to ask that he not have to send a letter to Kaslova until his decision.
The dispute concerns Zeman’s speech in January 2015 at a conference to mark the anniversary of the end of the Holocaust. In it, the statesman stated that Peroutka wrote an article “Hitler is a gentleman”. He also stated that the journalist published it in the magazine Přítomnost.
The president later added at a press conference that he saw the article with his own eyes. However, the castle does have text in the archives could not be found, according to historians, does not exist and according to the court, the statement about Peroutka ‘s authorship was untrue.
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