The Slovak judiciary has for the first time deprived a member of parliament of racist hate speech. With the final conviction of right-wing extremist Milan Mazurek, the Supreme Court in Bratislava today ended a trial that has been going on since 2017.
The Mazurek, who has been sitting in parliament since 2016 for the far-right People’s Party Our Slovakia (LSNS), also has to pay a fine of 10,000 euros for cutting down members of the Roma minority on a flat-rate basis.
Roma and Sinti racially attacked
In a radio broadcast in 2016, Mazurek denounced an alleged „gypsy terror against decent people“ and labeled members of the Roma minority as parasites who „do nothing for our people and contribute nothing to our state budget or our culture, but decided in reverse, to lead an antisocial life and to suck out our social system „.
In 2018, a court sentenced him to a fine of 5,000 euros. However, Mazurek appealed against the verdict, which criticized his party as a „political justice“.
The Supreme Court, as the last instance, not only confirmed the original sentence, but increased the sentence. Since Mazurek sat in Parliament, he repeatedly tested the limits of the legal system. Among other things, he bluntly denied on Facebook the Holocaust.
