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Khamoro Festival celebrates 10th anniversary in Prague ... the state police, Svitavy police director Miroslav Brandejs said, adding that about 200 participants were expected, the same number that marched along the Svitavy streets last year. However, police do not expect any skirmishes, he said. "We do not think that public order would be violated.
It will be a peaceful march and everyone has the right to organise it. Given last years' experience I see no reason for any extreme security measures," Bandejs said. "If the participants violated the conditions set by the law we are prepared to disperse the march in coordination with the police," Erich Stuendl, crime prevention coordinator from the Svitavy Town Hall, said. It will be the third such march and the previous ones had a peaceful nature. In 2004, Pechanec, then a 23-year-old skinhead, was sentenced by the Prague High Court to 17 years in prison for a racially-motivated murder of a Romany man in 2001. According to the verdict, Pechanec stabbed to death a Romany after a verbal conflict. The victim left behind a seriously ill partner and two small children. Pechanec formerly openly declared himself a skinhead, but in September 2001 he asserted before the court that he had parted with the skinhead movement five years ago. Before the murder, Pechanec was three times sentenced for violent crimes, such as breaching public peace and propagation of movements aimed at suppressing people's rights and freedoms. Moreover, he spent two years (1998-99) in prison for having attacked a young Romany with a knife. In May 2001, Pechanec was given 14 months behind the bars for attacking two anarchists. A number of rallies have been held in protest against the verdict.
(Ceske Noviny)
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