Czech Republic isn't an exception and Neo-Nazism is a real problem for many people. There is a city in Northern Czech called Most, where 25% people are unemployed and the Neo-Nazi movement is very big.The older members of this movement are connected to the mafia who take a part in extortion of local clubs, illegal selling of weapons and selling drugs. Media attention was brought to Most with a case of a group of these people went to one of the local night clubs and after fighting with the guards by the entrance, two guards were shot to death. It showed how the local mafia is connected with the police because after a while everything went in same way as before and none of them was arrested. Last year in October Filip Popelka was killed, he was an older member of the Neo-Nazis who was for long time part of this mafia. His body was found in front of his house with many gun shots. All these people are well know in Neo-Nazi movement and they use young members for racist attacks on the Gypsy community and many other people. Children between age 15-23 are very active and big groups of them can be seen when they are attacking people. When anti fascist action set up in this city it created a big street fights between both sides. AFA was very effective and some of the main Neo- Nazi members ended up for a long time in hospital, windows of their cars were broken and younger Neo-Nazis got afraid and stopped with attacks.
Unfortunately Augustin
Kraus, member of AFA was last year in
January jailed for 4 months after one of these
attacks. After this time was released and till
the end of September of last year was waiting
for the court. Then he was sentenced for 14
months of prison for "bodily harm". He was
supposed to wait for the court order but he
didn't pick up his mail for a long time until he
was checked by police and they have a
warrant to arrest him. It happened on 14
January and from this time Augustin Kraus is
again in the jail. Your support is very important
while there is not many people in Czech
Republic who actually support prisoners and
all these people who fight against oppression
need our help. He speaks Czech, and can
easily understand Sloval and Polish.
You can also write him short postcards in English:
Augustin Kraus
Vazebni Veznice