Only Czech Police Sees No Racial Motive Behind Attack on Gypsies

16. 3. 2010 / Ladislav Žák

Until now I thought that to throw a Molotov cocktail into someone else's house, where they are locked indoors, is simply put an extremist act. Now I see, though, that according to some police statutes or perhaps just in the opinion of this officer in command of the investigation, who may see the violent episode as nothing else than a threat to public peace, instead of a hate crime. If the State will communicate with its citizens using this bizarre newspeak, which has nothing to do with the reality, then it will get only one result: people will stop listening and in the end they may start being afraid.

That, what happened this weekend with the Romany family in Ostrava is nothing else but a hate crime and it doesn't matter from whose hand or over whose head that fire bomb bottle was thrown.

If we will not hear from every side and parties the same strong words of condemnation of these attacks as those said by premier Jan Fischer, then we are in trouble. I just hope that this text doesn't hurt the still not found criminal, who is according to our officials not an extremist, a racist, but just some sort of threat to public peace.

It doesn't matter what they say. What happened this weekend is just a disgusting, extremist, murderous act, which should not find any understanding, pity nor forgiveness. That was an attack on us all and everything that we as a society have achieved. Between being a public threat and a threat to the society there is a big difference.

And it is very revealing that members of the pre-election clans have kept their mouths stone-shut. Probably they were told how to defend Gypsies does not bring political points, votes or sponsor's funds.

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