PRAGUE, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Czech police accused a 36-year-old man from Prague of supporting and promoting terrorism, as the man pasted leaflets with text of approving the killing of three Czech soldiers while on a mission in Afghanistan earlier in August, said police spokeswoman Andrea Zoulova on Friday.
The three Czech soldiers were killed by a suicide attacker on a patrol outside the Bagram base in Afghanistan on August 5, 2018.
"Based on evidence, we have accused the man from Prague of the serious crime of the support for and promotion of terrorism and the delict of incitement for a criminal act," Vojtech Motyka, head of the Prague extremism department, was quoted as saying.
Motyka said Czech citizens themselves contributed to find further evidence as they told the police that the leaflets were pasted.
The accused man is being prosecuted and could face up to ten years in prison. The case is supervised by the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office in Prague. According to Czech penal code, the crime of public approving of a committed terrorist act or praising the perpetrator carries a sentence from two to ten years in prison.
