- A new crime of the protection of war memorials is proposed.
- A group of coalition deputies filed an amendment to the Criminal Code.
- Distinguishes the damage to memorials from damage to ordinary things.
- There is a prison sentence for serious damage.
A new offense of damaging war memorials, war graves and war cultural monuments could be introduced. She suggested it A group of coalition deputies in the amendment to the Criminal Code, which it submitted to the National Council (NR) of the Slovak Republic. She drew attention to the increase in cases of damaging or destroying war memorials.
“Proceedings, when systematic damaging of war graves, war cultural monuments, legacy of the First and Second World War and de facto damaging the legacy of the Holocaust, with whom the victory over fascism has terminated, must now be considered more extremist acts that need to be more socially convicted. proceedings, discourage, or impose a penalty in the form of a punishment in a complete deed, ” approached the petitioners.
They pointed out that the police are currently dealing with such cases as damaging foreign things or hooliganism. “Taking into account the importance of damaged immovable or movable things is at least From a moral point of view, it is necessary to look at the committed deeds as distinctive deeds and to distinguish them from the damage of other ‘common’ things, ‘ They stated.
For causing more damage to the war memorial would thus be punishable by a prison sentence of up to two years in case of approval of the amendment. If the offender committed an act of a special motive, in a crisis situation, as a public official, He would be more serious or causing significant in a more serious way, the damage would be in danger of imprisonment for one to five years.
If he committed a given act as a member of a dangerous grouping, it would cause damage to it or committed it in the territory of consumption protection, He would be punishable by imprisonment of two to six years.
