By: Ron Ackert
From: JammieWearingFool

Trial of extremists over arson attack on Roma starts

(CTK) – The trial of four right-wing extremists suspected of the April 2009 arson attack on a Romany [aka Gypsies, Travellers ed.] family house in Vitkov, north Moravia, started under tough security measures at the Regional Court in Ostrava yesterday.

The four, David Vaculik, Jaromir Lukes, Ivo Mueller and Vaclav Cojocaru, face exceptional sentences, up to life imprisonment, if convicted of racially motivated attempted murder.

They have been escorted to the courtroom by a strong unit of Prison Service officers.

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