Thousands of protesters rallied in Prague on Wednesday to honour two homosexual males who have been shot lifeless out of doors a bar in neighbouring Slovakia.
Demonstrators have referred to as for extra coverage for the LGBTQ group and their households following the capturing.
The collecting within the Czech capital’s Wenceslas Square used to be held at the identical day because the funerals of Matúš Horváth and Juraj Vankulič in Slovakia.
The two Slovaks have been killed two weeks in the past in entrance of a well-liked bar in Bratislava.
The 19-year-old suspect used to be discovered lifeless via police. He had allegedly shared anti-semitic and homophobic posts on Twitter sooner than the capturing.
Police to begin with investigated the killings as a hate crime however later mentioned they suspected it used to be an act of terrorism, and that the suspect had deliberate to focus on folks, together with Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger.
Slovakia’s inside minister, Roman Mikulec, has promised to accentuate the battle towards hate speech and extremism following the capturing.
“Social networks are full of hateful comments, or comments that endorse the attack and incite violence,” Mikulec told reporters on Wednesday.
“Any approval, justification, or incitement to commit a crime is a criminal offence and the perpetrator faces up to 10 years in prison.”
Meanwhile, round 17,000 other folks have signed a petition calling on Czech lawmakers to go regulation that may give LGBTQ other folks the similar coverage as ethnic, racial, and different minorities.
The petition has additionally demanded that the rustic permits same-sex marriages.
