He worked as a volunteer in the Karpatská Sič battalion.
Former Czech soldier Filip Siman, who joined the Ukrainian volunteer battalion after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, will go to prison for eight years, where he will serve his sentence for looting and service in a foreign army. On Monday, the Supreme Court of Appeal in Prague decided on this and increased the sentence awarded by the Prague Municipal Court by a year. Based on the report of the Seznam Zprávy server, the reporter of TASR in Prague informs.
According to the court, he appropriated the property of fallen soldiers and civilians
Siman worked as a volunteer in the Karpatská Sič battalion. He commanded a group whose task was to patrol the trenches and carry out so-called “clearing operations” in the towns of Irpiň and Buča. According to the court, during the war operations, Siman appropriated the property of fallen soldiers and civilians. He took, for example, jewelry, branded glasses, investment bullion of silver or gold and other things.
In the past, he denied guilt and defended himself by saying, among other things, that he was only listening to the orders of his superiors. “I followed what I was told. The commanding officer told me that spoils of war are spoils of war. We didn’t do anything that someone else wouldn’t do,” he said in the past in an interview for Seznam Zprávy. During the trial, he changed his attitude and regretted his actions.
Even the unit in which he worked objected to such behavior. Its spokeswoman Vasilina Nakonecná said that she categorically condemns looting.
