Czech Republic: Youth gives Nazi salute, racist abuse to Romani bus driver

On Monday 25 February a Romani trolleybus driver had to call a municipal police patrol to deal with a young man who assaulted him verbally, shouted racist slogans and gave the Nazi salute. The driver, himself a former municipal police officer, called his former colleagues to take charge of the youth and remove him from the bus, as his behavior was not just an assault on the driver, but was bothering his fellow passengers.

Patrol officers boarded the bus and called on the youth to accompany them on suspicion of committing a misdemeanor against civil coexistence. "However, the man refused to get off the bus and started physically assaulting the patrol members, who used force to pacify him," Deputy Municipal Police Director Jan Novotný said. The case will now be reviewed by the municipal misdemeanor commission.