The Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament issued an opposition MP and chairman of the SPD movement Tomia Okamur for criminal prosecution. She was asked by the police that suspects him of incitement to hatred during last year’s election campaign. 81 deputies voted on Wednesday, 62 was against, reports TASR newsletter in Prague.
The deputies of the opposition movement for the negotiations brought a banner with the inscription “I will not appeal”. He refers to Okamur’s words that even if he is prosecuted, he does not dismiss what was the content of a controversial poster for which the police suspect him from incitement to hatred.
Okamura in the plenary said that freedom of speech is at risk in the Western world. “We are actually a debate on freedom of speech, not about me, but about what can be talked and pointed out and what and how it can be drawn,” said the deputy.
The chairman of the SPD Group Radim Fiala spoke of censorship in a speech and after the vote he also said and stressed that this step is the end of democracy. “We are starting a new period of political criminalization and you are at its birth. It’s wrong, it’s the end of democracy, ”Fiala said.
Okamur’s brother did not take part in the vote
The House of House is also a brother of Tomia Okamura Hayato, who is on the opposite side of the political spectrum. Shortly before the vote he spoke and explained that although he is a Democrat and deeply disagrees with the way of SPD policy, which artificially feeds in people fear and then uses it before the elections, he will not participate in the vote. “It is my six -year -old brother and I remember how he was born … Perhaps you will understand that I will move away from the hall and not vote,” he explained.
The SPD movement last summer as part of the election campaign brought a large billboard to Wenceslas Square, where the man was dark skin with a bloody face and held a knife. On the poster there was a slogan ‘lack in health care will not be solved by surgeons from imports’ and also ‘stop of the EU’ Migration Pact. The criminal complaint in response to this was filed by Deputy Mayor of Prague for Culture Jiří Pospíšil and also the non -profit organization Romea.
According to the SPD chief, the whole case is part of the political struggle before the elections to the Chamber of Deputies. According to him, the poster has nothing to do with racism, it is only an allegory to the current situation and also a response to the acceptance of the EU migration pact.
