YouTube personality sentenced over remarks on killing MPs with rebar

Banska Bystrica district court found activist and YouTube personality Rudolf V. (name abbreviated for legal reasons) guilty of inciting violence against a group of citizens over his statements made on a radio talk show and on the internet, where he threatened to beat allegedly corrupted politicians and lawmakers to death with steel reinforcing bars (rebars). "The district court found the defendant guilty and handed down a suspended six month sentence with a probationary period of one year," Banska Bystrica Regional Court spokesperson Nina Spurna said.