Dawn party leader visits man jailed for Roma murder
The head of the Dawn party, MP Tomio Okamura, on Friday visited Vlastimil
Pechanec who is serving a 17-year-jail term for a racially-motivated murder
of a Romany man. Mr Okamura said he wanted to hear Pechanec’ account of the
events; he said the 2003 trial against Pechanec had been manipulated, and
would like to have the case reopened. In a reaction, former state attorney
who oversaw the case, Renáta Vesecká said Mr Okamura’s claims were
“ridiculous”.
Vlastimil Pechanec was sentenced to 17 years in prison after he was found
guilty of stabbing a Romany man to death at a disco in Svitavy in 2001. He
later told the court he was a “supporter of the white race”, and wanted the
country to be free of Roma and black people.
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The head of the Dawn party, MP Tomio Okamura, on Friday visited Vlastimil
Pechanec who is serving a 17-year-jail term for a racially-motivated murder
of a Romany man. Mr Okamura said he wanted to hear Pechanec’ account of the
events; he said the 2003 trial against Pechanec had been manipulated, and
would like to have the case reopened. In a reaction, former state attorney
who oversaw the case, Renáta Vesecká said Mr Okamura’s claims were
“ridiculous”.
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