The Municipal Court in Prague today upheld the verdict against Walter Kraft. This opens the way to criminal prosecution of others.
Don't imagine any emotional court action. The Walter simply read the prepared verdict. My summary:
1) The President of the Chamber referred to the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. It is true that they have long wasted no time with the human rights of the indigenous peoples of Europe.
2) It was further stated that if the prosecutor acquires a subjective feeling that a speech is hateful, it is a sufficient basis for conviction.
3) Evidence is superfluous in such a case. It can be proved whether the defendant really wrote it. But there is nothing to deal with the hatred or danger of the text. The feeling of a prosecutor is enough.
4) The prosecutor present expressed the view that requiring the military to use military weapons in border protection should be punished in itself.
5) Walter's lawyer Petr Holý rightly remarked that from now on anyone can be convicted at any time for any text. It is enough to find at least one prosecutor who declares that he finds it hateful.
When I heard it, my first thought was, what they do when they come for me ... I've got a number of texts, almost every day somebody writes mail that what I wrote is actionable, sooner or later somebody's he will file a criminal report… and then it will only depend on the relevant public prosecutor if he ate well, if any hooligans did not spray his car, if his mistress gave him… and decides on the mood if it was incitement to hatred…