Published January 8, 2025 at 5:55 p.m
Foreign. Tomio Okamura, party leader of the anti-immigration SPD party in the Czech Republic, faces prosecution for “incitement against a ethnic group” after police in Prague requested that his immunity from prosecution be lifted over an election poster.
During the SPD’s campaign before last year’s election, a poster depicting an African with bloody clothes and a knife was used.
The text on the poster read: “The cuts in healthcare will not be solved by ‘surgeons’ from abroad.”
Police claim the campaign is a breach of the Incitement Against Ethnic Group Act, reports Echo24. The matter has now been passed on to the Czech Parliament’s Mandates and Immunities Committee.
The poster, which was placed in Wenceslas Square in the middle of Prague in connection with the election campaign, provoked strong reactions from left-wing politicians and established media. Critics called it “racist” and accused the SPD of playing on public fear.
Okamura has defended the campaign as a legitimate criticism of the EU’s migration policy, pointing out that it aimed to highlight the consequences of the then recently adopted immigration pact.
Source: www.friatider.se
