The Czech Police have charged a 41-year-old man with extremism because of a racist article he authored about a tragic blaze in the town of Bohumín and other pieces published on the Vlastenecké noviny ("Patriotic News") server. They announced the charges on Twitter.

On 8 August, 11 people, several of them children, died during the fire in a prefabricated apartment building in Bohumín (Karvina district). The article reported that both the alleged perpetrator of the arson and the victims were Romani and used terms like "parasites" to describe the dead.

The article was published on the Vlastenecké noviny ("Patriotic News") server on the day after the fire. In fact, not all of the victims were Romani, and the perpetrator was also not Romani, but the news server used the term "cikáni" to write about the deceased.

Police subsequently confirmed that they were investigating the racist article. The charges, according to a statement from police yesterday, are not just about the piece on the arson attack, but about other offenses that the officiers have not yet detailed to the public.

Link: http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-police-charge-author-of-antigypsyist-article-about-arson-for-that-and-other-offenses

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