Czech fascist MP says mass murderer was a "product of inclusive education", sparks outrage

Kobza even indirectly accused nonprofit organizations of responsibility for the tragedy. His post sparked sharp criticism and he has since deleted it.

In the post, Kobza attacks the Faculty of Arts as what he calls a “bastion of the elites of progressivism” that allegedly jumps to carry out what he called “any and every craziness from the EU”. According to him, the faculty is teaching its students hate and indoctrinating them.

Kobza also said that the FF UK graduates and students are now demanding that the right to own weapons be restricted in the Czech Republic even for people who had nothing to do with last week’s shooting. “According to the media, a successful graduate of the FF UK, that bastion of the elites of progressivism famous for jumping to carry out any and every craziness from the EU (and in that regard, the philosophers’ protests against the planet’s climate cycles there were especially tragicomic), collects weapons at home and goes to shoot up his school, his friends and his schoolmates. This is not, therefore, some kind of conservative ‘deplorable’, an agent of Putin, or a supporter of the SPD, but is a top-notch product of inclusive, progressive education,” he posted.

“All of this is revolving exclusively around the FF UK. Well, now the students and graduates of this weird institution are demanding the restriction of the right to own weapons for people who have nothing at all to do with this tragedy. The question that is now surfacing is: What are they even teaching at the FF UK? What kind of hateful indoctrination program is underway there? What role do the nonprofits play in it? Is some other shooter there making preparations? In any event, I hope my children will never be taught by a graduate of that institution!” Kobza literally posted.

Czech Interior Minister Vít Rakušan called Kobza’s post disgraceful. “Debate about what to change in the way our society works as a consequence of last week’s attack, how to minimize the potential for tragedies of this kind, is natural, legitimate and necessary. There is no doubt it will take place in the coming weeks. However, I would like to ask us all not to abuse this tragedy, for example, to attack exactly the group of people who were targeted for violence there. I consider what Mr. Kobza wrote to be a disgrace,” he has posted to X.

Kobza published his post exactly one week from the mass murder that shocked the entire country. Most people have been expressing their condolences and solidarity to the victims and their families.

Commemorations and remembrance events have been held in all of the bigger cities in the Czech Republic. Some commentators believe Kobza’s post violated the law.

“I am of the opinion that the above-mentioned citation may meet the definition of felony spreading of a false alarm. That’s not all, though. These words about nonprofits, or about inclusive, progressive education contributing to such events, are themselves a display of hate toward a specific group in the population and could meet the definition of felony incitement of hate toward a group and its individual members or incitement to limit their rights and freedoms. For example, ascribing blame to inclusive education could be interpreted to mean that the culprits are students who have been included into mainstream education thanks to inclusion,” Pavla Čechová has written in an article about the social media post.

Kobza is notorious for his controversial opinions and his spreading of disinformation. He has previously alleged, for example, that the Americans never landed on the Moon, or that he has measured in front of his own home radiation levels that are allegedly four times higher than normal.

News server Novinky.cz reported that it has tried to reach Okamura, the chair of the SPD Tomio Okamura party, to learn whether he agrees with his fellow party member’s remarks. Okamura has yet to reply to their query.

Roman Malatinec, the Vice-Governor of the Banská Bystrica Regional Authority in Slovakia, who ran for the regionally governing party Voice-Social Democracy (Hlas – sociální demokracie), has also made some inappropriate remarks about the mass murder at FF UK. Malatinec said liberal democracy is to blame for the attack because it is destroying traditional values, in his view.