The police have charged a kebab seller in Pilsen, who pasted posters with anti-Jewish texts on his premises this week.
The man didn’t hide his negative opinion of Israel. The radical Palestinian movement Hamas, whose members killed 1,400 people, mostly civilians, during the attack on Israel on October 7, does not consider it bad. In the event of a court hearing, he faces up to two years in prison.
“We initiated criminal prosecution of a 35-year-old foreigner who was accused of committing the offense of defaming a nation, race, ethnic group or other group of persons under Section 355 of the Criminal Code. The investigation is ongoing at large,” said the Police of the Czech Republic on the X social network.
The salesman wrote on three colorful pieces of paper that he stuck to the door of the restaurant’s entrance: “These Jews are people who killed even the prophets like sheep. For this reason, God cursed them. These Jews are the ones who call the pure Virgin Mary, praised by God, unchaste. These Jews are the ones who want to kill the prophet Jesus.”
The police came to the kebab shop on Wednesday and after a short conversation with the foreigner, they took the signs away.
“I didn’t do anything wrong, I wrote the truth, it’s in the Koran,” the salesman defended himself when asked by ČTK in broken Czech.
He added that he was prompted to write by watching the news, in which he sees every day how many people he says are dying in the war because of Israel. He denied that Hamas was to blame, talking only about the bombs that Israel sends to Gaza, the attacks on hospitals and the dead, including babies.
He called Israel, not radical Palestinians, terrorists. “I don’t think Hamas is bad, I think Israel is bad, Israel is still bad, it’s been bad for seventy years,” the shopkeeper said.
According to ČTK, the man comes from Turkey, but has been living in the Czech Republic for a long time and allegedly has a Czech wife. He also told the police that he had written the truth.
