Prague, June 25 (CTK) – About one hundred people expressed support for refugees and rejected the wave of xenophobia that they say has been spreading through the Czech Republic in the centre of the capital city Thursday.
“Various politicians started making statements that are so strongly against refugees and quotas that it seems that these politicians have the feeling that society wants to hear this. So we decided to exert pressure from the other side,” one of the activists, Mariana Otterova, said.
The activists built a mock wall against refugees from paper boxes and presented a constitution consisting of recent statements by Czech politicians against refugee quotas and Islam.
“We are at war and a refugee wave is going to roll over us, full of heavily armed terrorists,” the preamble of the satirical constitution says.
No conflict occurred during the gathering.
Another event started in the city’s centre Thursday as well – a campaign organised by the People in Need humanitarian organisation, remembering the victims of the August 1968 occupation of the country by Warsaw Pact troops led by the Soviet army.
