One of the best-known faces of Slovakia's disinformation scene is facing a court trial over extremism charges.
The prosecutor of Special Prosecutor’s Office pressed charges against editor-in-chief of the Zem a Vek magazine, Tibor Eliot Rostas.
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The criminal complaint refers to a story that appeared in the magazine in May 2017, named “Wedge of Jews among Slavs”. In it, Rostas cited the ideas of various historical personalities expressing negative attitudes towards the Jewish community.
The quotes were placed within a context that made it appear to readers as a statement that the Jewish community is the source of the bad social situation nowadays. Thereby, it provoked hatred against the Jewish community and the need to intervene against it. The magazine that published the story is distributed and sold in Slovakia and it could be purchased by anyone, Tökölyová noted.
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21. Oct 2019 at 23:31 | TASR, Compiled by Spectator staff
