Adam Bartoš

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Adam Bartoš

Adam Bartoš (born January 15, 1980 in Rychnov nad Kněžnou ), with his full name Adam Benjamin Bartoš , is a Czech politician, journalist and writer who has attracted attention in the Czech Republic with his anti-Semitic and homophobic appearances and conspiracy theories.

Political career

Bartoš worked as an editor of the Internet news portals Aktuálně.cz and iDNES.cz ; because of his radical views he had to leave them and founded his own portal prvnizpravy.cz and freeglobe.cz , where he deals with various conspiracy theories. For example, he accused various personalities of being controlled by the Illuminati Order or of being an agent of the Freemasons and in the 461st episode of the television series The Simpsons he discovered signs of an atomic bomb attack in Berlin during the 2011 women's soccer World Cup the negative award Bludný balvan in bronze for pseudoscientific activity.

In January 2014, he was elected chairman of the Národní demokracie party, which is widely viewed as “far right” and nationalist. Bartoš created a public register of personalities who could be accused of being ideally close to the opinions of the former President Václav Havel (for which he received praise from President Václav Klaus : the list was "brilliant").

After expressing the opinion in 2012 that the media were under the control of the Jews, he began to compile and expand an also public list of Jewish personalities, which in 2014 earned him an investigation by the Czech Office for Data Protection and the allegation of anti-Semitism on the part of the Prague people Jewish community.

In March 2015, he and other members of his party put up a plaque in a prominent location about the “necessity of solving the Jewish question, which has not yet been satisfactorily done” (and published the photo of it); it happened on the scene of the murder of the Czech girl Anežka Hrůzová, known from the Hilsner case in Polná , in which the Jewish shoemaker Hilsner was found guilty without evidence; with reference to a possible ritual murder, anti-Semitic resentments should be deliberately strengthened. Prosecution has also been initiated in this regard.

Also in 2015 he urged the initiators of the annual Prague Pride event , a variation of Christopher Street Day there , to cancel the celebrations because his party would rebel against it by all means - up to and including liquidation.

In 2015, too, Bartoš was one of the initiators of a demonstration against the acceptance of refugees in the Czech Republic; he carried a gallows in his hand and threatened that if the government did not keep the refugees out of the country, he would do it himself; some participants in the demonstration carried large posters with gallows (a procedure is also ongoing for this action).

The media also often criticize the fact that an activist with such extreme views still has good relations with the highest authorities - in the past, Bartoš was received at Prague Castle by the President of the Czech Republic Miloš Zeman, among others .

On January 21, 2016, Kateřina Dejmalová, wife of the late dissident and minister Ivan Dejmal , and Karel Šling, son of the politician Otto Šling , who was executed in the so-called Slánský trial in 1952 , filed a criminal complaint against Bartoš for anti-Semitic activities and contempt for human rights.

Works

“Bludný balvan” award for pseudoscientific works in gold, silver and bronze

Remarks

  1. ↑ Bludný balvan, German foundling , literally means in Czech about "wandering stone".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bronzový bludný balvan 2011 - Adam B. Bartoš a tým serveru Freeglobe.cz , report in Sisyphus from March 30, 2012, online: sysifos.cz/…
  2. ↑ Bludný balvan získaly zázračný přístroj i léčba zíráním do slunce , news portal TÝDEN.cz, March 30, 2012, online: tyden.cz/…
  3. ↑ Michal Pink, Josef Smolík, Komunální volby a krajně pravicové politické strany v České republice v roce 2006 , study on right-wing extremism in the Czech Republic, project Central European Political Studies Review , online: cepsr.com/…
  4. ↑ Leo Pavlát, Adam B. Bartoš aneb česká autentická pravice , Czech Radio, March 1, 2012, online: rozhlas.cz/radio_cesko/…
  5. ↑ Seznam Židů. Nový rozměr pravicového extremismu v Česku , news portal TÝDEN.cz, May 4, 2014, online: tyden.cz/…
  6. ↑ Cena za internetový seznam slavných českých Židů , news portal TÝDEN.cz, September 14, 2014, online tyden.cz/…
  7. ↑ Semitism na webu Sili, varuje Židovská obec. Šokují ji seznamy Židů , news portal iDNES.cz, May 5, 2014, online zpravy.idnes.cz/…
  8. ↑ Antisemitské hovado hovoří , February 16, 2012, Internet edition of the magazine Reflex, online reflex.cz/
  9. ↑ , Židovská otázka dosud nevyřešena. ' Antisemita u hrobu Hrůzové , Internet version of Echo24.cz, April 6, 2015, online: echo24.cz/…
  10. ↑ Policie obvinila šéfa Národní demokracie Bartoše. Umístil protižidovský text k hrobu Anežky Hrůzové , Hospodářské Noviny / iHNed, January 5, 2016, online: domaci.ihned.cz/…
  11. ↑ Dopis řediteli festivalu Prague Pride Czeslawu Walekovi , Internet edition Národní demokracie, June 15, 2015, online narodnidemokracie.cz/… ( Memento from January 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Půjdeme do vás! Bartošova strana vyhrožuje gayům likvidací , news portal echo24.cz, June 18, 2015, online echo24.cz/…
  13. ↑ Trestné činy hanobení či vyhrožování? Projevy u šibenic zkoumá policie , iDNES news portal, July 7, 2015, online zpravy.idnes.cz/…
  14. ↑ Zeman pozval na hrad antisemitu a extremistu Adama B. Bartoše , Roma portal romea.cz, October 29, 2013, online romea.cz/
  15. ↑ Trestní oznámení na Adama B. Bartoše: podněcuje nenávist vůči Židům , Internet portal Deník Referendum from January 22, 2016, online at: denikreferendum.cz / ...

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personal data
SURNAME Bartoš, Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bartoš, Adam Benjamin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech politician, journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Rychnov nad Kněžnou