The Municipal Court in Brno will today start dealing with the case of the publication of Germar Rudolf’s book Holocaust under the microscope, which questions the facts about the Holocaust, and more than 20 other titles. The plaintiff accuses four people and three legal entities of participating in an organized criminal group and denying genocide.
The main trial was originally planned to begin at the end of August, but one of the attorneys of the defendant legal entity terminated his power of attorney, so the judge postponed the date. The indictment will be heard before the court by Vítězslav Baránek, Pavel Kamas, Erik Sedláček and Lukáš Novák, as well as legal representatives of Guidemedia publishing house, Náš smér and Pavel Kamas Publishing House.
A book questioning the facts about the Holocaust was published in the Czech Republic in 2016 by the Guidemedia publishing house. The case is related to a police intervention in June 2020 in Brno and other places. Detectives from the National Central Office against Organized Crime, together with the Austrian police, intervened in Guidemedia at the time and also conducted house searches of the people behind the publishing house. The charges were dropped a year later. Four people and two companies listened to them. However, following complaints, the charges were dropped. Police reopened the prosecution last summer.
Guidemedia has also published speeches by Adolf Hitler in the past and faced prosecution for endorsing genocide and supporting a movement aimed at suppressing human rights and freedoms. But the Supreme Court acquitted all the actors.
Source: www.tyden.cz
