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• Vladimirs Lindermans appealed to the General Prosecutors Office asking to initiate criminal proceedings against the MEP from Latvia Krisjanis Karins

Head of an NGO “Native Language” and one of the initiators of collection of signatures in support of granting Russian language status of a state language in Latvia Vladimirs Lindermans appealed to the General Prosecutor’s Office asking to initiate criminal proceedings against the MEP from Latvia Krisjanis Karins. Mr Lindermans believes that the recent statement of Mr Karins should be qualified as a public call to genocide of a specific ethnic group. Latvian Criminal Law considers actions against an ethnic group by “forced transfer of children from one group to another” as genocide. As reported, Krisjanis Karins stated that ethnic Russians who grow in Latvia should become ethnic Latvians and the aim of the integration policy is assimilation of children of ethnic Russians.

Head of an NGO Native Language and one of the initiators of collection of signatures in support of granting Russian language status of a state language in Latvia Vladimirs Lindermans appealed to the General Prosecutors Office asking to initiate criminal proceedings against the MEP from Latvia Krisjanis Karins. Mr Lindermans believes that the recent statement of Mr Karins should be qualified as a public call to genocide of a specific ethnic group. Latvian Criminal Law considers actions against an ethnic group by forced transfer of children from one group to another as genocide. As reported, Krisjanis Karins stated that ethnic Russians who grow in Latvia should become ethnic Latvians and the aim of the integration policy is assimilation of children of ethnic Russians. Chas