Lukáš Kohout

Lukáš Kohout (* 27. August 1983 in Most ) is a Czech fraudsters, con man and politician . In 2002 he traveled around the world as the alleged assistant to the President of the General Assembly of the UN, Jan Kavan, and, under the pretense of this false fact, had himself financed flights to exotic destinations. In addition, he is an organizer of the extreme right -oriented demonstrations against in Northern Bohemia resident Roma judge.

Life

Lukáš Kohout grew up in Varnsdorf and attended a special school with Roma children. To this day he knows many Roma from Varnsdorf personally. He learned the profession of waiter or cook. Kohout was left by his wife at the time in favor of a man belonging to the Roma minority. His partner has come out in public with openly right-wing extremist statements - with T-shirt labels as well as in an interview with the television channel Prima .

Fraudulent Activity

• 2002: Kohout traveled around the world as the alleged assistant to the President of the General Assembly of the UN Jan Kavan and, under the pretense of this false fact, let himself and his friends fly and a. to Thailand , the Maldives and South Africa as well as hotel rooms. He damaged the Czech state by 2.6 million Czech crowns . Kohout was sentenced to probation and 250 hours of community service in 2005. The prosecutor appealed and asked for a harsher sentence. Kohout did not do this community service and was sentenced to 125 days in prison. The case has been tried repeatedly in different courts. The Prague District Court 1 last sentenced him in 2011 to 28 months in prison for fraud and for violating probation conditions. However, the case is still not completely closed. Kohout will begin serving 10 months in prison in the fall of 2014.
• 2007: Kohout forged an email he sent under the name of the Christian Democratic Senate faction (KDU-ČSL). This contained a request to resign from Jiří Čunek , the leader of this party.
• 2004: In 2004, Kohout posed as the spokesman for the Teknival CzechTek , a festival whose organizers never had contact with the media.
• 2011: Kohout infiltrated the Young Social Democrats of Varnsdorf , the youth organization of the Social Democratic Party . He was later exposed.
• 2011: Arrested for fraud and privacy violations for buying computers and laptops under someone else's name for which he did not pay for. The damage is 35,000 Czech crowns.
• 2014: Kohout says of himself that he is running for mayor in Varnsdorf. On the website set up for this purpose, he quoted well-known Czech personalities such as the Czech Ambassador to Turkey Václav Hubinger, Lucie Slavíková Boucher, Founder of Schools Without Borders , Emília Vašáryová, Miloš Šuchma, Besedy Slovan and Květa Vitvarová with statements that support him in his To support the candidacy. The people quoted described the quotations as wrong and distanced themselves from them.

Political activities

• After he was exposed to the Varnsdorf Young Social Democrats, he became a member of the Unie svobody - Demokratická unie party , a liberal-conservative party, in their Prague branch.
• Kohout has been organizing demonstrations against local Roma in the structurally weak Schluckenauer Zipfel and other North Bohemian places such as B. in Děčín under mottos like "We survived Varnsdorf, we will survive everything" or "The pot is overflowing". He developed into a leading figure in the right-wing extremist anti - Roma movement in northern Bohemia and especially in Varnsdorf.
• 2014: Kohout organized an anti-Roma demonstration in Děčín on August 13th.
• 2014: On his website, which was specially set up for Varnsdorf's candidacy for mayor, he placed racist and other derogatory statements against Czech Roma, who u. a. the Lety concentration camp and the events surrounding the handling of it in the present concern.

Kohout in pop culture

• The Czech film Bobule (2006) by director Tomas Barina is based in part on the fraud story of Lukáš Kohout as the alleged assistant to the President of the UN General Assembly Jan Kavan .

literature

• Lukáš Kohout, Klára Samková-Veselá: Falešný asistent na křídlech Parlamentu. Prague, 2006, 183 pages, ISBN 80-249-0769-0 (German "False Assistant on the Wings of Parliament")

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Tomáš Belica: Lukáš Kohout “Dnes sekám latinu”, in: Metro, September 5, 2011
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Podvodník se vysmívá soudům, politikům i médiím Štěpán Kotrba: Britské listy , January 27, 2006
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Falešný Kavanův asistent Kohout jde do politiky, in: Novinky.cz, January 13, 2006, ČTK ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} František Kostlán, Gwendolyn Albert: Czech Police arrest convener of anti-Roma demonstrations for alleged credit fraud. In: Romea.cz, September 22, 2011
5. ↑ Sascha Mostyn: "Pray that they do not multiply." In: TAZ, September 26, 2011
6. ↑ Zdeněk Ryšavý: Czech con artist who organized anti-Romani protest to serve 10 months in prison. In: Romea.cz, August 18, 2014
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Ondřej Mrázek: Czech con artist Kohout reads about support from famous figures. In: Romea.cz, August 20, 2014
8. ↑ Thomas Kirschner: The KDU Senate faction's demand for resignation against Cunek was forgery. In: Radio Prague, April 11, 2007
9. ↑ Z Kohouta se stal varnsdorfský šéf , Novinky.cz
10. ↑ Zdeněk Ryšavý: Czech Republic: "Lukáš Kohout Fan Club" gathers in Rumburk. In: Romea.cz, October 2, 2011
11. ↑ Lara Schultz, Robert Andreasch: Hatred against Roma. Solidarity between the population and the extreme right in the Czech Republic. In: analysis & criticism, No. 565, October 21, 2011