Families of Czech Roma Holocaust victims suing SPD leader Okamura

Cenek Ruzicka, chairman of the Committee for the Compensation to the Roma Holocaust, filed a criminal complaint about Czech Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) leader Tomio Okamura and deputy Miloslav Rozner (SPD) over Holocaust denial today. The group of about ten relatives of the Roma who perished in Lety, a Roma internment camp in the Nazi-controlled Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, claim compensation for moral damages. They are of the view that the two politicians violated the law by publicly denying the Roma genocide, Ruzicka said. Ruzicka said this time his lawsuit against Okamura would succeed better than in 2014 when the police had shelved it. Society should receive the signal that it is impossible to play down the suffering of people in Nazi camps, he added.