Peter Weisenbacher, of the NGO Human Rights Institute, filed a criminal complaint with the Prosecutor-General's Office over suspicions that Culture Minister Martina Simkovicova (SNS nominee) had expressed support for racism and anti-Semitism. In the July 3 interview she gave to the website topky.sk, Culture Minister said: "Europe is dying out, new children are not being born because of all the LGBTQI, and it's interesting that this is happening only to the white race“.
Human Rights Institute lawyer Daniel Grejtak finds it beyond comprehension “how a member of the Slovak government can talk about the "white race" in such a context, as if Jewish or Roma children were undesirables; as if Slovakia wasn't a Republic for all its citizens but some tribal community based on ethnic and racial affiliations".
The Culture Ministry finds the statements of Weisenbacher and Grejtak "absolutely misleading". In its reply it warned that such allegations constitute an attack against the Culture Minister’s "constitutional right, as a citizen of the Slovak Republic, to freedom of speech".
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