January 18, 2006
A Czech man who heckled protesters in an anti-Holocaust denial march has been given a suspended sentence of 15 months in jail and put on probation. Antonin Cermak, 21, had shouted, "only, only" as the protesters cited the death of 1.7 million Jewish children at the hands of the Nazis. He was handed given a suspended jail sentence of 15 months in prison with subsequent probation of three-and-a-half years. Cermak is appealing the verdict. Cermak was part of a group of 70 neo-Nazis who demonstrated in front of the German Embassy in Prague in October in support of Ernst Zündel, who currently on trial in Germany for denying the Holocaust. Cermak is the first person in the Czech Republic to be prosecuted for Holocaust denial since it was made a crime in 2001.
