The Czech MP and president of an extreme rightist party, Tomio Okamura, officially apologised for having been “imprecise” when he claimed that people could walk in or out of the Lety concentration camp, and then doubled up: He cirted Jan Rataj, a history professor who alleges that the Protectorate’s “Gypsy Camps” were not concentration camps…
Roma organisations have filed a crime report against Okamura. Let’s see if anything happens.

– Czech MP apologizes for “imprecision”, then urges people to read historian who calls the Romani Holocaust a “myth”. In: Romea. 04.02.2018. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-mp-apologizes-for-imprecision-then-urges-people-to-read-historian-who-calls-the-romani-holocaust-a-myth
– Czech citizens file crime report over MP’s remarks denying the suffering of Romani genocide victims. In: Romea. 03.02.2018. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-citizens-file-crime-report-over-mp-s-remarks-denying-the-suffering-of-romani-genocide-victims

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