During yesterday's demonstration against public broadcaster Czech Television in Prague, Czech Republic, reporter Richard Samko experienced racist insults while covering the march organized by Ladislav Vrábel, which was attended by several thousand people with the aim of "enabling appearances on Czech TV broadcasts". A video taken by Afrique Média includes audio of somebody in the crowd saying: "Hey, there's that bastard, dude, the gypsy one, dude."
“You’re here with us today, yeah?” a demonstrator calls to Samko as participants in the protest were lining up in Opletalova Street near the main railway station. “Thanks for calling me that,” Samko responds, to which a demonstrator then adds even more insults and threats.
“Do you have bodyguards?” the demonstrator rudely asks the reporter – who then asks why he is being addressed in the first place. “You’re not going to call me a gypsy again?” Samko asks.
“I’ve never said that in my life,” the man objects. “You’re afraid to repeat it now?” the Czech Television reporter asks.
The march then begins. “Where are you going, come with us, you shit!?” the man shouts at Samko, who has moved on with his reporting of the event.
