OREANDA-NEWS. The Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic didn't recognize as discrimination the refusal of the owner of the Hotel Brioni in the city of Ostrava (north-east of the republic) to accommodate citizens of Russia in it. This was announced on Tuesday evening the website of the Prague newspaper Pravo. The Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic overturned the decision of the Supreme Court (SC) of the republic, which recognized the actions of the owner Brioni illegal. The Czech Trade Inspectorate previously fined the hotel 50 thousand kroons (about € 2 thousand) "for consumer discrimination on a national basis." Sun lowered it to 5 thousand crowns (€ 200), and the COP demanded to cancel. 

The owner of the hotel, who has Ukrainian roots, Tomasz Krchmarzh five years ago refused to settle 49 athletes from Russia. At the entrance to the hotel building and on its website, an announcement appeared: "From March 24, 2014, we are not placing citizens of the Russian Federation. The reason is the annexation of the Crimea." It also contained a reservation that this does not apply to Russians, who in writing declare disagreement with the annexation of the peninsula to Russia.

The Czech Constitutional Court considered that the owner of Brioni expressed his political views in the correct form. After posting on the Internet an announcement about the refusal to accommodate the Russians, he allegedly did not discriminate them in rights, as they were warned in advance about the conditions of settlement and could choose another hotel in Ostrava. The Constitutional Court also recalled the official position of the republic, according to which Crimea is not the territory of the Russian Federation. The owner of the Brioni Hotel Tomash Krchmarzh five years ago refused to settle 49 Russian athletes because of the situation with the Crimea