Debate about Nazi concentration camp for Gypsies in Czech Republic

The former Czech human rights commissioner Petr Uhl has lodged a criminal complaint against the Czech Communist member of the European Parliament Miloslav Ransdorf over his comments on the wartime concentration camp for Gypsies in Lety. Ransdorf had said in a statement: "As a historian I know that outrageous lies have been spread about Lety. There has never been any genuine concentration camp there," Ransdorf said in reaction to a resolution voted in the European Parliament. Uhl's complaint is based a law threatening with a prison sentence of up to three years the public denial or questioning of the Nazi genocide. According to historical files, 326 people died in the camp. Gypsy groups have been seeking the closure of a pig farm on the site of the former camp, so far without success. The new Czech prime minister Jiri Paroubek and government human rights commissioner Svatopluk Karasek have come out in favor of the farm's relocation, as was demanded by the European Parliament.