Racist youths attack people on the streets of Prague - ROMEA - www.romea.cz

Attacks by young skinheads in Prague do not have to be aimed "merely" at people of a different skin colour but also at those that simply happen to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, writes the daily Mlada fronta Dnes in its Prague regional supplement today. What may seem particularly horrifying is the young age and brutality of the offenders. A man from Prague whose appearance does not seem to make him an obvious skinhead target was hospitalised with serious injuries after he was attacked by a young skinhead. The man became the object of the skinhead's ire when he objected to the young brute's racist slurs. The man has since acquired a handgun for self-defence. Only last weekend three skinheads, aged between nineteen and twenty-four, attacked a Romany man and his pregnant wife in the Narodni trida subway station in downtown Prague. Prior to that, the three skinheads had been almost incessantly shouting the Nazi salute on the streets. Soon dozens of Romany men appeared on the scene and a wider clash was avoided only thanks to a timely intervention by the police.