A wave of hatred engulfed the man accused of tormenting the dog
The writer of the post was first convicted of defamation. However, after the intervention of the Supreme Court, the judiciary acquitted her, and the man thus began to claim compensation in civil proceedings for the protection of personality. He wanted to pay 100,000 crowns for his wife, but this week the Brno Regional Court awarded him only 25,000 crowns.
It was a massacre. There were reports that I was a bastard and that I should end up like that dog
The woman made her post on Facebook in mid-November 2018. She wrote how she found a neglected dog in a kennel on the premises of one of the companies in the Kroměříž region, which she said could no longer even stand on its feet. She described how she called 158, how the city police arrived instead of the national police, but they did not intervene.
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The dog was eventually euthanized on the spot by a summoned veterinarian. The woman’s post was accompanied by photos of a dead dog, an empty pen and a picture of a company car with the license plate of the owner of the company, who was also the owner of the dog. “Share and comment,” she wrote.
The post was shared by thirty thousand people and was accompanied by ten thousand mostly hateful comments.
“The client meant it as a criticism of the approach of the city police, it was not primarily intended against the owner of the dog, she did not want to touch him personally. That form was unfortunate. She told me herself that if she knew what she would cause, she wouldn’t have done it,” the woman’s lawyer claimed.
He was an old and thin dog. I saw no signs of violence on him. He could barely walk.
On the contrary, the dog’s owner’s lawyer pointed out that the dog was already 13 years old and its condition had been deteriorating for the last year. “I don’t see a reason why she should present the client as a total non-human and still encourage people to share her post. If she wanted to criticize the city police, it probably has nothing to do with the fact that she gave the client’s phone number there. His phone was flooded with hate messages, he was paralyzed for at least 14 days,” argued the man’s lawyer.
“It was a massacre. There were reports that I was a bastard and that I should end up like that dog. I took his state of health to mean that he was old,” the owner testified earlier at the criminal courts.
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“He was an old and thin dog. I saw no signs of violence on him. He could barely walk, he looked like he was struggling, that’s why I chose euthanasia,” the veterinarian testified during the criminal proceedings.
The Senate of the Brno court, headed by Michal Ryška, pointed out that the case has two levels. The text itself and a photo with a phone number.
“For us, it is decisive that there was long-term neglect of veterinary care on the part of the owner. He let the dog suffer, which also follows from the statement of the State Veterinary Administration, according to which it can be characterized as careless, even neglected. The text of the contribution thus followed the legitimate goal of animal protection with the allegedly lax approach of the city police,” stated Ryška.
However, publishing a photo with a number on the owner is a completely different matter. “It was just a self-serving, bullying attack. The owner of the dog was subjected to the hatred of the outraged public. It had to be obvious that the published photos would have negative privacy impacts in the context of otherwise legitimate information, which they did,” said the judge.
“The Senate finally agreed on financial satisfaction in the amount of 25,000 crowns. It was a temporary injury, she wrote her post and deleted it after a few days, which also led to a reduction in the case, and after a month it was completely silent,” added Ryška. The verdict of the Brno court is final.
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