Arson attack on a Roma family in Jablonec nad Nisou

A group of four teenage racist skinheads attacked a house inhabited by a Roma family. One of the perpetrators threw a Molotov cocktail into the house, which caused a fire. Nine inhabitants were in the house. Thirty-five-year-old mother Anna Poláková and her twelve-year-old daughter Lucie Poláková suffered second-degree burns on 15-20% of their bodies. One of the perpetrators later wrote a letter urging other skinheads to eliminate Roma physically. The main perpetrators were later convicted of assault and sentenced to approximately two years in prison. The case falls within a series of racist violence in the Jablonec and Liberec regions at the time.