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Wed Nov 25, 2015, 09:33 PM Nov 2015

Czech authorities indict leader of anti-Islam movement for inciting hatred on Facebook

Source: ROMEA

The chair of the Bloc against Islam, Martin Konvička, was charged on 18 November with inciting hatred against Muslims because of remarks he has posted to Facebook. His legal representative, Klára Samková, announced the news to journalists yesterday.

The case is being handled by the state prosecutor in České Budějovice, which received a motion to prosecute on 12 February. According to the Bloc, which has been mentioned in state reports on extremism, this will be a political trial, but Czech Justice Minister Robert Pelikán (for ANO) has rejected such allegations as nonsense.

"The alleged offense is said to have been committed by Docent Konvička through several remarks he published in a semi-private group on his Facebook profile," Samková said. She added that the remarks were published between 2011 and 2014.

State Prosecutor Josef Richtr, who is supervising the case, confirmed that the notification he received about Konvička concerns, among other things, his previous statements posted to his Facebook profile about "grinding Muslims into meat and bone meal". Konvička's Bloc has been called a xenophobic sect by Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka (Czech Social Democratic Party - ČSSD).
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Konvička: "When we win the elections, dear Muslims, we will grind you into meat and bone meal."

Read more: http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-authorities-indict-leader-of-anti-islam-movement-for-inciting-hatred-on-facebook#.VlYraT9hrDQ.facebook



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