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Summonses to Tuesday’s courtroom session have been despatched to each the accused and the victims – their participation within the courtroom session is necessary, courtroom consultant Lina Nemeikaitė reported to BNS.
Mr. Gražulis didn’t come to the listening to scheduled for January 15, he had come to the courtroom constructing, answered the journalists’ questions following which left, for which he was fined 250 euros.
Mr. Gražulis informed BNS that he intends to take part within the courtroom session scheduled for Tuesday on the Vilnius District Court docket, however he stated that he’ll accomplish that with no lawyer in the interim, as he mightn’t discover a protection lawyer.
Within the case transferred to the Vilnius District Court docket, Mr. Gražulis is accused of publicly making statements that may be considered insulting a gaggle of individuals on account of their sexual orientation on Could 26, 2022, following the plenary session of the Seimas, the place the Civil Union Legislation draft was mentioned.
In accordance with the prosecutors, the information collected through the investigation permit us to moderately imagine that Mr. Gražulis did it with direct intent, realizing that his statements are being filmed, broadcast and printed within the on-line media.
5 individuals are acknowledged as victims on this investigation.
The pre-trial investigation was organized by the Vilnius District Prosecutor’s Workplace, and the investigation was carried out by the officers of the Vilnius District Chief Police Commissariat.
In November final 12 months, the Seimas revoked P. Gražulis’ authorized immunity on this case in order that he might be charged.
The investigation was began following Could 26, 2022, following Mr. Gražulis’ swearing within the Seimas hall with LGBTIQ representatives.
On that day, following the Seimas authorised the civil union invoice legalizing same-sex partnerships, Mr. Gražulis, following leaving the plenary assembly corridor, met a number of representatives of the LGBTIQ neighborhood and cursed them, known as them degenerates spreading venereal illnesses, and provided them remedy.
The parliamentarian claims that he solely expressed a Christian place and based mostly it on the Holy Scriptures, the place, in accordance with him, it’s written much more strictly regarding gay individuals.
The Legal Code gives for a effective, restriction of liberty, arrest or deprivation of liberty for as much as two years for individuals who publicly mocked, insulted, incited hatred or incited to discriminate towards a gaggle of individuals or an individual belonging to it on account of sexual orientation, on different grounds.
In the beginning of November final 12 months, the Supreme Court docket of Lithuania introduced a verdict in one other felony case – the courtroom discovered that the politician acted within the pursuits of the frozen meals manufacturing firm “Judex” registered in Kaunas in 2015-2017, illegally interfered within the actions of civil servants in Lithuania and Russia and thus abused the workplace of a member of the Seimas scenario, triggered nice non-pecuniary injury to the state.
In December, the Seimas revoked Mr. Gražulis’ mandate for breaking his oath and thus prevented him from operating for parliament or president for ten years.
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2024-05-24 19:56:55
