Right-wing extremism in Slovakia: Kotleba sentenced to prison
Right-wing extremism in Slovakia: Kotleba sentenced to prison
October 13, 2020
PRAGUE - Just a year ago, Marián Kotleba was considered the bogeyman of Slovak politics. The 43-year-old, together with 16 other members of his ultra-nationalist, right-wing extremist people’s party Our Slovakia (ĽSNS) – the self-designation is – “Kotlebianer”, the right wing in the 150-member National Council.
Kotleba may now have to swap his place on the back bench in parliament on the Danube for a cot behind the mountains: On Monday of this week, the special court in Pezinok sentenced MP Kotleba to four years and four months in prison.
Judge Růžena Szabová, who caused a stir in early September with an acquittal in the trial of the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancé, found Kotleba guilty of Nazi propaganda.
To celebrate the anniversary of the “unification” of Slovakia with Nazi Germany, as the “Kotlebians call the final smashing of Czechoslovakia in 1939, Kotleba publicly and with a broad grin distributed checks for 1,488 euros to three families in need .
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