Czech biochemist Zdeněk Hel, who is a professor of immunology at the University of Alabama, filed a criminal complaint against the representative of the Slovak government for the review of the process of managing and managing resources during the COVID-19 pandemic, Petr Kotlár, for his statements at a seminar in the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament. He suspects him of spreading an alarmist message. Kotlar is already facing criminal prosecution in Slovakia as well, reports TASR correspondent in Prague.
“The criminal complaint against Slovak government plenipotentiary Petar Kotlar has been officially filed. The investigation is taking place simultaneously in Slovakia and the Czech Republic,” wrote Hel on Facebook on Thursday. His lawyer Artur Ostrý specified that the criminal complaint was filed on Monday (February 23) at the Prague 1 Regional State Attorney’s Office.
Hel announced the filing of the notice shortly after the seminar, which took place at the end of January in the lower chamber of the Czech Parliament under the auspices of the chairman of the PRO party Jindřich Rajchlo. Among other things, Kotlár declared on it that vaccines against covid are biological weapons controlled by multinational corporations.
The Slovak police also contacted the Czech biochemist and his lawyer. “They wanted information on whether and where a criminal complaint was filed so that international cooperation could be requested,” conveyed Ostrý’s statement to Hel on his Facebook profile. Since Kotlár has already been charged in Slovakia, filing another criminal complaint with the Slovak authorities would not make sense for now, according to him. since the Bratislava police are already interested in the facts from the Czech Republic.
“From our side, we filed a criminal complaint as a result of the suspicion of committing the criminal act of spreading an alarm message… and in the same act also of the criminal act of general endangerment,” Ostrý added, adding that if his intent could not be proven, then the criminal offense of general endangerment due to negligence could at least be fulfilled.
Ostrý added for the server iDNES.cz that the Slovak investigator expressed himself in the phone call, that the Slovak authorities will also try to investigate Kotlár’s criminal proceedings, which took place in the Czech Republic.
