Court rules Czech state to apologize in Peroutka case

The Ministry of Finance will have to apologize for Czech President Miloš Zeman’s false accusation that the acclaimed Czech writer Ferdinand Peroutka admired Hitler.

The Prague Municipal Court on Thursday ruled in favour of an appeal filed by the writer’s granddaughter Terezie Kaslová against an earlier verdict issued by the Prague 1 District Court.

The case involving the Czech head of state dates back to 2016, when he claimed that Peroutka had penned an article entitled ‘Hitler is a gentleman’.

To this day, neither Prague Castle staff nor historians have managed to find the alleged piece.