Just punishment for attack on Roma

Four neo-Nazi youths were condemned to prison sentences of between 20 and 22 years for attempted murder on Wednesday in the Czech Republic. The youths had set the home of a Roma family on fire in 2009. The conservative daily Lidové noviny praises the harsh sentences: "Some people might say that these four youths had the misfortune to be caught quickly and made an example of. After all, they weren't the first to commit racially-motivated crimes or murder. So what? People who throw Molotov cocktails into a house where children are sleeping can't expect anything other than an exemplary punishment. Anyone thinking about following in their footsteps should get that through their head."

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