Incidents targeting Ukrainians rise in Czechia

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Incidents against Ukrainians are on the rise in the Czech Republic, with a recent analysis showing an increase between the start of the year and the end of July compared to the whole of last year.

In Iustitia, which conducted the analysis reported by Deník N on Thursday, monitors incidents aimed at Ukrainians and Russians.

According to its findings, Ukrainians were targeted in 19 incidents from January to July, while there were 16 such incidents for the whole of last year.

According to available information, Russians have not been targeted once so far this year, but they were 14 times last year.

One recent incident targeting Ukranians occurred in Plasy, in the Plzen region, where a man brutally assaulted two Ukrainian women in front of their young children for no apparent reason other than their nationality.

While Czech police arrested and charged the man, the younger of the victims, a 34-year-old mother, ended up in hospital with an open jaw fracture, a fractured cheekbone and a broken nose. Police are now searching for two other suspects involved in the attack, Czech Radio reported on Thursday.

Interior Minister Vít Rakušan (STAN) has condemned the attack saying the responsibility lies with those spreading hate speech against Ukrainian refugees.

The Czech Republic hosts the most Ukrainian refugees per capita in the EU,  Eurostat data reads. The EU average per 1,000 inhabitants is 9.1, while in Czechia, this figure is 32.2.

Around four million Ukrainian refugees have migrated to EU countries since the start of the war in Ukraine in February last year, including about 350,000 to Czechia.

(Ondřej Plevák | EURACTIV.cz)

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