The Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament issued an opposition MP and chairman of the SPD movement Tomia Okamur for criminal prosecution. She asked her for the police that It suspects incitement to hatred during last year’s election campaign. He voted for his release on Wednesday 81 deputies, 62 was against, Informs TASR newsletter in Prague.
The deputies of the opposition movement for the negotiations brought a banner with the inscription “I will not appeal”. It 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 Police suspects from incitement to hate. Okamura in the plenary declared that Freedom of speech is threatened in the Western world. “We actually lead a debate on freedom of speech, not about me, But about what can be said and point and what and how it can be alerted, ” 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 with a new period of political criminalization and you are at its birth. It’s wrong, it’s the end of democracy,” said Fiala.
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, who artificially feeds in people’s fear and then uses it before the elections, he will not participate in the vote. “It’s 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,” explained.
SPD Movement last summer as part of the election campaign brought to Wenceslas Square a large billboard, on which he was A man of dark skin with a bloody face and held a knife. There was a slogan on the poster ‘Lack of health care is not resolved by surgeons from imports’ And also ‘Stop 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 SPD chief is the whole case Part of the political struggle before the elections to the Chamber of Deputies. According to him, the poster has nothing to do with racism at all is just an allegory to the current situation and also a response to the adoption of the EU Migration Pact.
