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The police had initially refused to open an investigation into the possible incitement to hatred in the statements of the candidate of the Lithuanian People’s Party, Pranciškus Valickas, but this decision was reversed by the prosecutor Justas Laucius.
The prosecutor ruled that without the pre-trial investigation “no unequivocal conclusion can be reached” that the statements do not incite hatred, Gintarė Vitkauskaitė-Šatkauskienė, a representative of the prosecution, told BNS.
The day after the debate, the Freedom Party candidates for Seimas Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius and Evelina Dobrovolska filed a complaint with law enforcement. Both have been elected to parliament and will be sworn in as members of the Seimas on Friday.
Vilnius County Police Representative Julia Samorokovskaya confirmed to the SNB that the police officers had refused to initiate a pre-trial investigation. According to her, the officers did not explain why.
During a debate in the LRT study on September 23, Valickis called homosexuals “pediatricians”, “perverts”, said that if they were allowed to adopt children, “they could torture them, exploit them, rape them” and claimed that this was an attempt to press “Organization of pedophilia”.
According to the Penal Code, anyone who mocks, despises, incites hatred or publicly discriminates against a group of people or a person belonging to it is punished with a fine, restriction of freedom, arrest or imprisonment of up to two years.
The Lithuanian People’s Party received the lowest number of votes of all parties in the Seimas elections: 0.25 percent. P. Valickas was not elected a member of the Seimas.
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