The Lithuanian basketball fan, now dubbed the “Olympic Nazi” by the British media, who saluted black ushers with a neo-Nazi greeting during the match between Lithuania and Argentina will have problems in our country, too. Prosecutors launched an investigation of incitement against any nation, race, ethnic, religious, or other group of people; the “Olympic Nazi” could face up to two years in prison, delfi.lt writes.
DELFI already reported that an unidentified basketball fan was making noise during a basketball match. When he saw two black ushers, he saluted them with the Nazi usual greeting – raising his outstretched right arm. The gesture captured on video gained attention from the British media; the Daily Mail titled an article about the Lithuanian, “Olympic Nazi.”
After the incident, organizations fighting racism urged for more rigorous assessments of such cases and for offenders to be immediately withdrawn. Shortly thereafter, police were made aware of another Lithuanian: 36-year-old Petras Leљиinskas was accused of a racist attack and fined 11 thousand litas by the British court. According to the London police, he incited racial hatred by making sounds imitating monkeys and showing Nazi gestures.
Up to two years in prison According to DELFI, the Prosecutor General’s spokeswoman Rыta Dirsienл said that the HRMI appeal was forwarded to the Vilnius District Prosecutor’s Office. Last Friday, Vilnius prosecutors launched a pre-trial investigation under the Penal Code Article 170 Paragraph 2, which states that those who publicly mock, show contempt for, incite hatred, or discriminate against person or a group of a people on grounds of gender, sexual orientation, race, nationality, language, origin, social status, religion, beliefs, or opinions, shall be punished by a fine, or restriction of liberty, or detention, or imprisonment, for up to two years. The investigation will be carried out by Vilnius County Police Headquarters, leaded by the Vilnius Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
Translated by Sandra Dijokaitė
Edited by Jennifer Virškus
He should obviously have something happen like being fined like he was, but two years of prison does seem a little stiff. On the other hand i feel every Nazi should At Least be jailed,not saying he is one and yes he might have been riled up and that extreme should not be allowed but also the world we live in every day -or at least over here- people “bust balls” literally non-stop, joke around, and the racial jokes are unlimited, AGAIN this is very very extreme in my eyes and I don’t want people to think that I think its acceptable because it is certainly not, especially with the history of BOTH countries (Britain & Lithuania) and also mine and many more, my point being I’ve said black, white, jewish, etc. Jokes to my black and white friends and that doesn’t make me racist, however I certainly wouldn’t go up to any african and say a black joke. That being said he certainly wasn’t telling a joke and he obviously wasn’t his buddy, but two years is a little much. Unfortunately for some reason I feel that young Lithuanians,or older, choose to wear that god-damned swastika and do everything the Nazi’s did salutes,symbols,uniforms etc. to rebel against communism. Hopefully the Lithuanians don’t feel that there is only one choice, communism or being a Nazi.
That is a distortion of what I wrote. He has already been fined the considerable sum of £2,000. Do you really think gaoling the bloke for a further two years, for a few moments of over-excited anti-social exuberance, no doubt fuelled by drink in such an atmosphere, merits a gaol sentence? These days they don’t get that for manslaughter, GBH, paedophilia, drug trafficking in Britain. Where the hell is your sense of proportion, Brian?
Do you live in modern Britain? Have you any idea how often ordinary Britons, going peacefully about their business, are harangued in the streets in the strongest racist terms by non-Europeans. It is commonplace. It is never acted upon. We have all seen it time after time; it is one of the reasons I and hundreds of thousands of fed up Britons have put their native country in their rear-view mirror.
In places where there is a heavy Asian presence, ordinary White girls have to run a gauntlet of racist and obscene catcalls as they go about their business; this too is commonplace.
An elderly lady once said to me; ‘why doesn’t someone clock them?’ I replied; ‘because you would get three years for assault and the sentence would be automatically doubled, without remission, because of its ‘racist nature.’ That is the law.
If you can justify that then you can justify the one-sided injustices committed against South African blacks during the apartheid era; you can’t have it both ways, unless of course you have no objection to being called a racist?
This one-sided racism in Britain is based on the status quo belief that White Europeans alone, including those of the Baltic States, can be guilty of racism. A blind eye is turned to blatant non-European racism. They have their own black and Asian institutions, protected in law. Can you imagine a ‘White Police Officers Association’? No, you would need the smelling salts at the mere suggestion.
This has been commented on and conceded time and time by those who could never ever be described as racist; even non-Europeans concede as much.
I personally, in private, asked a Sikh gentleman, who worked as an official for the then Race Relations Board, what would happen if similar laws weighted in favour of immigrants, were passed in his native India. An honest man; he replied; ‘there wouldn’t be enough hemp rope available to hang politicians from lamp posts.’ How I respect that man and his sense of fair play. Rather his company than that of a self-loathing white liberal.
Such clear thinking men as this Sikh have the intelligence to realise that this heavy-handed one-sided abuse of the Race Laws by the authorities is fuelling resentment. Indigenous Britons are as discriminated against as once were ‘kaffirs’ in apartheid South Africa.
So you think it is OK for people to go around making the Nazi salute in public and calling black people monkeys, etc?
This is now an obscene medieval-like politically motivated witch-hunt. He should have played safe and made the Communist clenched fist salute. No one, whatever their political persuasions, should welcome this kind of extremism from the baying palace media and politicised judiciary. If they do then God help us all.
What will be politically incorrect tomorrow? Will it be the publication of any comment or books that fail to genuflect to the victors’ propaganda of World War 11? Or will it be criticism of any government’s open door immigration policy? It’s happening; be afraid, be very afraid.
If the jackboot ever goes on the other foot, and history does have a habit of repeating itself, there will be little to complain about when their judiciary go after any who have displayed left-wing sympathies.
I think we need a few Balarus teddy bears dropping in on us.