The case of R. emaitaiis was transferred to the court due to incitement of hatred

He is accused of promoting hatred and inciting groups because of his nationality, as well as supporting international crimes, denying them or grossly belittling them, the prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday.

According to her, the data collected during the pre-trial investigation gives reason to believe that on May 8, April 13, 14, and 15, 2023, R. emaitaitis, a member of the Seimas, published texts on his personal account on the social network Facebook, in which he possibly mocked, insulted, and encouraged people to hate him. nationality group

The indictment states that, as a state politician, R. emaitaitis, in the texts published on the social network, sought to provoke and provoke the intolerance of Jews, Jews as a national group by accusing them of being responsible for the real or alleged crimes of a separate Jew or group of Jews, or even not yd performed actions.

The indictment also states that R. emaitaitis, during the plenary session of the Seimas last year on May 9, spread the idea of ​​normalizing anti-Semitism targeting people of Jewish nationality, disparaging and encouraging hatred of the Moni group and its members because of their nationality.

The then member of the Seimas, R. emaitaitis, is also accused that in his comments on the social network, published on the 13th, 14th and 15th of April 2023, he belittled the Nazi Germany’s genocide (Holocaust) on the territory of Lithuania, doing so in a sarcastic and vulgar way, according to the statement. in the notice of the prosecutor’s office.

The criminal case was transferred to the Vilnius District Court.

At the end of April, the Constitutional Court added that due to anti-Semitic statements, R. emaitaitis took the oath of the Seimas member and submitted to the Constitution. Because of this, the Seimas had to vote on the rejection of his mandate, but the politician himself renounced the mandate in order to avoid the sanction approved in the Constitution, which prohibits him from holding positions for which a constitutional oath is taken.

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