Jaszek was previously tried for wearing a Wagner badge with the letter Z, but an appeals court overturned the decision and remanded the case for further investigation. Two months later, history repeated itself.
Czech Jakub Jašek in the Czech Republic was sentenced to six months of suspended imprisonment, suspended for 2.5 years, for wearing a patch of the private military company Wagner during a protest. It was reported by Radio Prague International.
It was reported that during anti-government protests in Prague in May of this year, a man put a patch with the Wagner PMC logo on his backpack.
“The defendant is well aware of the meaning and content of the Wagner group patch, and that is why he wore it at the rally to express his position on war crimes,” said Judge Eva Shviglerova.
For denying, approving and justifying genocide, Yaszek faced up to 3 years in prison, but the sentence was called “educational” and the sentence was suspended.
It was also noted that Yashek did not appear at the court hearing.
“Jaszek was previously tried for wearing a Wagner badge with the letter Z at another demonstration in March of this year. The district court sentenced him to six months’ probation, a fine and a one-year ban on staying in Prague. However, in last summer, the Prague Municipal Court of Appeal overturned the final decision, and sent the case back to the police for further investigation. In May, Jaszek told the court that he did not agree to the charges and condemned the crimes in war “whatever did it,” writes the newspaper.
Let’s recall that on June 24, PMC Wagner leader Evgeniy Prigozhin staged a riot. Columns of “Wagnerites” moved towards Moscow and shot down the planes and helicopters of the Russian Army. After negotiations with Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, Prigozhin returned the units to field camps. The Kremlin promised to cancel the criminal case against him.
In August, Prigozhin died in a plane crash in the Tver region.
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin said that the owner of Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, blew himself up.
Source: korrespondent
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