Man sentenced to twenty months for trespassing

A court in the Moravian town of Olomouc today upheld a twenty- month sentence given to a 42-year-old Romany man from Ostrava who was found guilty of attacking a member of the Olomouc Roma community. The perpetrator and four of his friends stormed the victim’s apartment and shot him in the stomach during an attack in 2007. The perpetrator was charged with trespassing because there is not enough evidence that he fired the gun at the man who his ex-wife had left him for. The attack was motivated by the fact that his family wanted the dowry back.