Expert: Items confiscated from Vítkov trial defendants contain Nazi symbols

An expert confirmed on Wednesday that items confiscated during a search in the houses of four men on trial for attempted murder contain Nazi and neo-Nazi symbols. He said that the items propagated racial hatred and xenophobia, and that one of the defendants had in his possession a magazine that called for ethnic cleansing and compared Romanies to animals. The four defendants face charges of racially motivated attempted murder after a petrol bomb attack in the town of Vítkov last April that left three members of a Romany family injured. The most seriously hurt was a two-year-old girl, who suffered burns on 80 percent of her body and was at one point close to death.