SPD Rozner sentenced to six months in prison for statements about the Roman camp in Lety | iROZHLAS
The District Court for Prague 4 granted former SPD deputy Miloslav Rozner a six-month condition. Rozner was threatened with up to three years in prison for denying, questioning or approving the genocide. The decision is not yet final.
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Rozner said about the camp in 2017 at the SPD congress that it was a “non-existent pseudo-concentrator”. He wanted to draw his attention to the overpriced purchase of a pigsty near the place of reverence. The then government YES, CSSD and KDU-CSL paid 451 million crowns for it.
Rozner is no longer an MP and has no immunity. He thus faces charges against statements about a Roma camp in Lety
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The police wanted to accuse Miloslav Rozner four years ago, but at that time he had parliamentary immunity, and the Chamber of Deputies did not extradite him to prosecute. However, he lost his seat after last October’s elections. Subsequently, the police accused him of denying, questioning, approving and justifying genocide.
He considered the accusation absurd, saying his goal was not to question the suffering of the people during the Nazi occupation.
“In my speech at the internal party in camera, I definitely did not deny the genocide, but in my opinion I definitely did not completely agree with the opinion from my public sources,” Rozner told ČT last October.
In December, Rozner filed a complaint against the commencement of criminal proceedings, but the public prosecutor’s office rejected it. At the beginning of the year, a lawsuit was filed against Rozner with the District Court for Prague 4.
Camp in Lety u Písku was opened in August 1940 on the site of former disciplinary labor and later concentration camps. It became a transfer station for Auschwitz for imprisoned Roma. According to historians, 1,300 men, women and children passed through the camp from August 1942 to August of the following year. The website of the Museum of Romani Culture states that 326 people died in Lety.
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