The anti-Islam petition stand in Olomouc. Photo supplied by author."A shocking assault took place in the centre of the city of Olomouc. A stall with a petition against accepting refugees in the Czech Republic was attacked by a large group of Arab immigrants. The Arabs yelled, ‘In 15 years, you will all be our slaves!! We have so much money that we will buy up everything here!’ said a petition organiser and continued, ‘The Arabs began to destroy everything. They kicked into things, they broke up the stand. We were afraid for our lives! The police had to act.’"
This is a quote from an article published in Blesk, the most popular tabloid newspaper - read daily by millions in the Czech Republic - about an incident which allegedly took place in the North Moravian city of Olomouc on Friday 29th May. The shocking news item was quickly seized on by most Czech media and was widely disseminated throughout the country, especially on social networks.
But was it true? Actually, there were no "Arab immigrants". A group of foreign students of medicine at Olomouc University, mostly from the United Kingdom, raised some verbal objections to the anti-Islamism of the activists from the extremist group at the petition stall. Here is a testimony from an eyewitness, the editor of the local paper Olomoucký deník:
