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• Security Police forwarded to the Prosecutors Office materials of a criminal case against a person suspected in incitement of ethnic hatred
• MEP from Latvia Tatjana Zdanoka: Saeima and the European Union are not ready to grant non-citizens voting rights in municipal elections

The Security Police forwarded to the Prosecutor’s Office materials of a criminal case against a person suspected in incitement of ethnic hatred. The person published insulting statements towards activists of the radical nationalistic organisation Latvian National Front commenting their pictures placed in the Internet on which they lay flowers with crape beneath the Monument for Liberators of Riga from Nazi Invaders during celebrations of 9 May (Victory Day.)

The Security Police forwarded to the Prosecutors Office materials of a criminal case against a person suspected in incitement of ethnic hatred. The person published insulting statements towards activists of the radical nationalistic organisation Latvian National Front commenting their pictures placed in the Internet on which they lay flowers with crape beneath the Monument for Liberators of Riga from Nazi Invaders during celebrations of 9 May (Victory Day.) Vesti Segodnya

According to the MEP from Latvia Tatjana Zdanoka (FHRUL), there are two options how Latvian non-citizens could be granted voting rights in municipal elections- first, adoption of such decision by Latvian government; second, adoption of relevant norm in the EU. However, Mrs. Zdanoka considers that the Saeima and the European Union are not ready yet for such decision.

According to the MEP from Latvia Tatjana Zdanoka (FHRUL), there are two options how Latvian non-citizens could be granted voting rights in municipal elections- first, adoption of such decision by Latvian government; second, adoption of relevant norm in the EU. However, Mrs. Zdanoka considers that the Saeima and the European Union are not ready yet for such decision. Telegraf