Czech sentenced to seven years in prison for looting in Ukraine

The Prague Municipal Court on Tuesday sentenced former Czech soldier Filip Siman to seven years in jail for looting during war operations in Ukraine.  Twenty-seven-year-old Siman said in his defense that he went to help Ukraine because his ancestors came from that country and argued that he took things from Ukrainian homes on the orders of his superiors. However the court had videos that he himself filmed of his looting expeditions in which he was excited and unbashed when stealing special forces berets, jewelry, money, sunglasses and weapons from dead people.  Siman previously spent two years as a professional soldier in the Czech army. He joined the Ukrainian volunteer battalion Carpathian Sich at the end of March 2022 without getting permission from the Czech president. The verdict is not binding.