The fact that the long-standing representative may have committed an offense, pointed out the Jewish community in Prague. Its chairman, František Bánya, found it astonishing that such an expression, which was popular mainly in Nazi Germany, was heard at the council meeting and also from politics.

Štyler used it during the discussion when responding to the contribution of Councilor Petr Jirava (YES). “I’d like to know why he didn’t start cutting money for counseling, traffickers, and other Juda-Bolshevik material on your board.” he said.

This immediately provoked a reaction from the President and other politicians and the council meeting had to be interrupted in order to calm the passions. A few later moments, however, came from Štyler’s colleague Martin Farmačka (HPP 11), who managed to say into the microphone that “a Jew-Bolshevik is a normal expression” before its chairman interrupted.

They called for their resignation

Shortly afterwards, the borough council called on both deputies to apologize for their remarks and consider resigning from their deputies. “Such a manifestation of anti-Semitism is, in our view, completely unacceptable,” stated in the statement of the councilors.

Expired liability

At the initiative of the Jewish community, the Office of the City District of Prague 11 began to deal with the statement of Jiří Štyler. was only communicated that the whole thing “was postponed because the responsibility had ceased.”

A fine of up to 10,000 crowns can be imposed for an offense against public order, which causes public outrage, which, according to the municipality, was involved. So there was no punishment or apology. The chairman of the Jewish community in Prague, František Bányai, added that the office had not given any reasons why it had postponed the matter and also pointed out that the responsibility for offenses under the law is one year.

Anti-Semitic prejudices

However, Styler’s statement will appear in the report on the state of anti-Semitism this year. “Similar rude expressions often appear in discussions on social networks, where the inability to argue or formulate an opinion is replaced by vulgarity, insults and labeling, “said Lt. Blesk. However, this has been a rare issue among politicians lately. “In my opinion, if someone uses this or a similar term inadvertently in a public debate, he has anti-Semitic prejudices deeply in his mind,He added.