REPORT ON EXTREMISM IN THE TERRITORY OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC IN 2012 Prague 2013 The Report on Extremism in the territory of the Czech Republic was approved by the Czech Government on May .. 2013 by Resolution No ... The text was not subjected to any linguistic or stylistic editing. 2 LIST OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 43 2. Definition of extremism ......................................................................................................... 6 3. Report on extremism in the Czech Republic in 2012 ............................................................. 7 3.1. Extremist scene in 2012 .................................................................................................. 7 3.1.1. Right-wing extremism .............................................................................................. 8 3.1.2. Left-wing extremism .............................................................................................. 25 3.2. Findings from the Police Regional Directorates of the Czech Republic ....................... 34 3.2.1. The capital of Prague .............................................................................................. 34 3.2.2. South-Bohemian region .......................................................................................... 39 3.2.3. South-Moravian region .......................................................................................... 42 3.2.4. Carlsbad region ...................................................................................................... 46 3.2.5. Hradec Kralove region ........................................................................................... 48 3.2.6. Liberec region ........................................................................................................ 49 3.2.7. Moravian-Silesian region ....................................................................................... 51 3.2.8. Olomouc region ...................................................................................................... 54 3.2.9. Pardubice region ..................................................................................................... 57 3.2.10. Pilsen region ......................................................................................................... 58 3.2.11. Central-Bohemian region ..................................................................................... 60 3.2.12. Usti nad Labem region ......................................................................................... 61 3.2.13. The Highlands region ........................................................................................... 63 3.2.14. Zlin region ............................................................................................................ 64 3.3. Statistics of criminal activity with extremist subtext .................................................... 66 3.3.1. Introduction ............................................................................................................ 66 3.3.2. National statistics ................................................................................................... 67 3.3.3. Statistics according to regions ................................................................................ 69 3.3.4. Statistics by acts ..................................................................................................... 70 3.3.5. Perpetrators ............................................................................................................. 72 3.3.6. Crimes committed by police officers ..................................................................... 75 3.3.7. Crimes committed by members of the Army of the Czech Republic .................... 76 3.3.8. Court statistics ........................................................................................................ 76 3.3.9. Statistics of the Supreme Public Prosecutor´s Office ............................................. 78 3.3.10. Statistics of Probation and Mediation Service ..................................................... 85 3.3.11. Crimes with anti-Semitic context ......................................................................... 86 3.3.12. Crimes motivated by hatred against Roma citizens ............................................. 86 3. List of abbreviations ............................................................................................................. 88 3 1. Introduction The Report on extremism and associated phenomena in the territory of the Czech th Republic in 2012 is submitted on the basis of the Government Resolution No 328 of 9 May 2012. In contrast to reports from 2010 and 2011, it has been submitted separately from the conceptual material. The evaluation of the Conception in combating extremism in 2012 and the Conception in combating extremism in 2013 are included in separate documents. This document has returned to its previous title ''Report on extremism''. The title ''Report on extremism and manifestations of racism and xenophobia'' was selected in 2011. The aim was to capture a broader range of racist and xenophobic manifestations which were not necessarily perpetrated by members or sympathizers of extremist movements. Such ambition, however, proved to be unreachable. Grasping all the racist and xenophobic behaviour, acts or proclamations on a national or regional level reaches over the scope of both the document and the issue of extremism in such sense in which it has been perceived by the Ministry of the Interior. The author of this report is the Ministry of the Interior. The source material was obtained via representatives of the intelligence services, the Police, resorts of the government administration, Ministry of Justice, Foreign Affairs, Defence and the Prosecutor's Office in particular. Spectators´ violence, respectively hooliganism, is a separate topic within the agenda of the Ministry of the Interior. Relevant documents and reports on hooligans may be found on: http://www.mvcr.cz/clanek/kriminalita-146433.aspx?q=Y2hudW09Mg%3d%3d . Despite that, there are notions of significant events related to hooligans in the report due to their active involvement on the extremist scene. The document on extremism does not focus on sects and pseudo-religious organisations because there were no records of significant activities related to a security risk of an infiltration to government structures, political or economic sphere, or threats to the democratic structures of the state. This document is drafted annually. Its aim is to inform the public about developments on the scene on a regular basis. Based on the findings, which are included, new measures are adopted. First passage on a national scene is based on data provided by the Security Intelligence Services and the Police of the Czech Republic. Since 2011, findings from regions, respectively the Regional Directorates of the Czech Police, i.e. police extremist specialists, have been presented to the public. This part consists of detailed information about hooligans. The statistics have been provided by the Police, the Prosecutor's Office, Ministry of Justice and Probation and Mediation Services of the Czech Republic. Information about scenes of neighbouring countries or other significant European countries were provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. With its assistance, experts from the Masaryk University in Brno were also able to draft the third passage on foreign scenes. Finally, a list of abbreviations may be found in the last section. 4 The paper includes photographs, which were taken by the employees of the Ministry of the Interior and the Police. Photographs obtained from other sources, e.g. in the foreign scene section, are clearly referenced. 5 2. Definition of extremism In this document, the term ''extremism'' is defined identically as in previous annual reports. This comprehensive definition was published in full for the last time in the report on th the issue of extremism in the Czech Republic in 2002 and on July 9 2003 the Czech Government adopted the Resolution No 669 1. In this context, it is also possible to refer to a well-established case law in relation to the interpretation of the term ''movement'' 2. Not all the subjects in the Report have engaged in illegal activity in 2012. From a long-term perspective, however, they do possess the features of extremism in ways, which are defined in previous annual documents. Some academics and NGOs have an opinion that the term ''extremism'' is no longer sustainable. There is a number of different definitions of these phenomena within the security and academic community. A concept of hate (bias) crimes (i.e. criminal offences resulting from hatred, bias or collective judgement motivation) has been discussed. Ministry of the Interior has had two expert studies on the hate (bias) concept conducted. According to the results, the view of hate crimes does not rule out a complementarity with the view of extremism, respectively; both concepts may supplement each other. Thus a new way of strengthening the elements of hate (bias) crimes at the police and judicial units is opening. 1 See http://www.mvcr.cz (section „Security threats“, subsection Extremism, „Strategy for combating extremism and Annual reports on extremism“). 2 In particular the opinion of the Criminal Division of the Supreme Court Tpjn 302/2005 ( č.