Grebenicek then labelled Sinagl, an anti-communist activist, as a primitive. The High Court in Olomouc has also decided that Grebenicek has to publish his apology in two dailies that appear nationwide, and to pay the court expenses worth almost 30,000 Congo ex-leader appears before International Court ...
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Court upholds life sentence for Czech double murderer ... crowns. Grebenicek said he has not received the verdict as yet. "I hear this for the first time...After I receive the court's decision in writing, I'll study it and only afterwards I'll react," Grebenicek told CTK. The High Court judges dealt with the case again after the Supreme Court returned it to them for a new discussion this February. Originally the judges stated that Grebenicek, in his then capacity as KSCM head, spoke at the May Day meeting on behalf of the KSCM, not of his own.
Therefore Sinagl should have sued the KSCM, not a politician, the High Court suggested. The Supreme Court, however, declared this interpretation wrong, saying that Grebenicek's utterance was an excess he was personally responsible for. At the meeting at Prague's Letna plain on May 1, 2005, Sinagl loudly commented on Grebenicek's speech, to which Grebenicek reacted saying: "There is a primitive here, take him away." The police took Sinagl away as in their opinion he had disturbed a regular meeting. Feeling harmed by Grebenicek's utterance, Sinagl brought a suit against him for the protection of his personal rights. Grebenicek headed the KSCM from 1993 to the autumn 2005 when he was replaced by Vojtech Filip, the current chairman. ($1=15.118 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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