Czech Teacher charged for denying the war in Ukraine
Czech Teacher charged for denying the war in Ukraine
Criminal investigators charged Martina Bednářová, a teacher from an elementary school in Prague 6,
because of her statements during a Czech language class last April. At the time, the teacher, who has now been dismissed, claimed to the eighth-grade pupils, among other things, that there was no war conflict in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and that Ukrainians were killing the Russian population in the now-occupied Donbass. "In this case, on January 13, the criminal prosecution of one natural person was initiated for actions that were qualified as the offense of denying, questioning, approving and justifying genocide. The investigation will continue in the matter," Aleš Cimbala, spokesman for the Prague city prosecutors, told Práva yesterday. He added that the accused faces six months to three years in prison in the event of an indictment and subsequent trial.
18 people are being prosecuted for approving the war
ČT1 belongs to a group of media that are tied to the billionaire Soros. And we know exactly who it is payable to," the teacher pointed out in the 18-minute audio recording. She also stated in the recording that since 2014 Ukrainians have been killing the Russian population in Donbass. "Those Russians were killed in that region of Donetsk and Luhansk, liquidated just because they were Russians. And they were actually liquidated by actually Ukrainian Nazi groups in such a way that the door to the barrack was slammed, the barrack was set on fire, people were flayed alive, children were murdered, etc. And this has been going on constantly since 2014," said the teacher. At the same time, Russian propaganda spreads the same claims as part of its effort to justify the attack on Ukraine. The Czech teacher denied wrongdoing or spreading lies, saying that she only presented facts to the pupils.
They say just the facts "In class, we dealt with today's much-discussed topic of the Russian-Ukrainian war and brief, clear histories of both states. I worked only with verified and historically documented facts," said the server's teacher last year. However, after the recording became public, the principal of Na Dlouhé lán elementary school in Prague 6, Renata Riedlová, forbade the teacher to go to work and wanted to hand her the resignation in person. However, the woman reported being unable to work and complained about the school's progress through a lawyer.
"My position outside the service initiated by one of the parents, approved by the school management and supported by the mayor of Prague 6, the reasons for which no one has yet explained to me, I perceive as an alarming denial of all democratic principles and freedoms in this state and an unprecedented restriction of speech and opinion," she wrote, according to Seznam Zpráv Czech woman. In the letter, she also requested the punishment of the student who made the recording. According to her, he acted in violation of school rules. The headmistress objected that the pupil would not receive any punishment. In the end, she managed to terminate the employment relationship with Bednářová.
She was finally fired in May "The dismissal was handed over to the teacher in May and we are now waiting for a court hearing to determine the invalidity of the termination of employment, given that she has filed a lawsuit against it. The trial regarding the dismissal will be held at the end of February," the school director told Práv yesterday. According to her, one of the reasons for the dismissal was that the teacher "gave false information to the children". Bednářová herself, who could not be contacted by the editors yesterday even through her lawyer, filed a lawsuit against the school last summer, claiming that her resignation was invalid.
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