Czech Republic: Police Want to Arrest Far-Right Hafu Parliamentarian for Racist Billboards


Tomio Okamura

How can it be illegal to be a racist?

Isn’t it just an opinion? How can you outlaw someone’s opinion?

This is worse than communism.

Communists never said you couldn’t be a racist.

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Prague Police have formally requested that the Chamber of Deputies lift the parliamentary immunity of Tomio Okamura, chairman of the right-wing Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) party, over an anti-immigration billboard campaign in the lead-up to regional elections last year.

According to police spokesman Jan Daněk and district prosecutor for Prague 1 Jan Lelek, the request— delivered on Tuesday morning — relates to accusations of inciting racial hatred.

“The police began criminal proceedings in August,” spokesperson Daněk announced, as cited by Echo24, noting that the official request for lifting immunity was forwarded to the secretariat of the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, who will then pass it to the relevant parliamentary committee.

The SPD erected large, provocative billboards in Prague’s Wenceslas Square last September, just before the regional elections. One image showed an African migrant holding a bloody knife, his shirt also stained with blood, alongside the slogan: “Healthcare shortfalls won’t be solved by imported ‘surgeons.’”

Another billboard depicting Roma gypsies also drew criticism and sparked criminal complaints.

Critics labeled the advertisement as racist and designed to stoke public fear, accusations vehemently denied by the radical right-wing party and its leader.

In an earlier statement, Tomio Okamura maintained that the billboards were a justified response to what he calls the government’s overly permissive stance on migration, highlighting the European Union’s controversial migration pact — which obligates member states to accept migrant quotas or face heavy fines — as a major concern.

The SPD movement has been saying consistently and clearly since its inception that the presence of Muslim and African migrants in Europe is literally a ticking time bomb for our society and civilization,” Okamura remarked.

Yeah, well. They’re certainly not helping civilization.

No one can explain why they’re here. You ask “what the hell are all these brown people doing here?” and instead of answering the question, the government just sends the cops to arrest you.

“The EU migration pact, which is also supported by [Czech Prime Minister] Fiala’s government, threatens to spread this dire problem to the Czech Republic as well,” he added.

“We’re proceeding very carefully compared to the migrant attacks taking place in Europe,” the SPD chairman added, insisting that his party’s message is underpinned by real statistics on violence committed by foreign nationals.

Should the Chamber of Deputies vote to waive Okamura’s immunity, prosecutors could formally charge the SPD leader with incitement — a crime that, under Czech law, can carry prison time.

Prison time!

For an opinion!

Disgrace.