The Lithuanian broadcaster fired the host after the statement about the Russian -speaking

Lithuanian national radio and television ceased to cooperate with TV presenter Algis Ramanauskas after his statements about people watching Russian films and listen to Russian music. He proposed to take away children from them, reports the publication Delfi.

The statement was made in mid -September, in an interview with Ramanauskas with the leader of the National Union National Union, shown in Utube, Vitautas Sinitsa.

“I understand that what I want to have been utopia, and I understand this. But imagine the household where the father loudly turned on the Russian film, and the mother listens loudly to Russian music. So there are only the question of what to do first: take away the children and then shoot, or in the eyes of the children ... No, of course, take away children and then. The children should be taken away from such people,” Delfi quoted the words of Ramanauskas. interview.

The statement was criticized by the speaker of the Sejm, representatives of two political parties and one independent candidate, as well as the Lithuanian Center for Human Rights, turned to law enforcement agencies. The prosecutor's office checks whether it was contained in the words of the leading call for violence.

"The repeated manifestation of the ambiguous rhetoric of Ramanauskas in public space does not combine with standards and harms the LRT reputation," the television and radio company said. Ramanauskas himself said that he criticized not Russian and Russian -speaking.

“Since the ethnic question is so sensitive and important, I emphasize once again that when I am talking about“ Russified Lithuania ”, I always emphasize that I mean those Lithuanians who consume gangster Petersburgs and Kirkorovs,” he wrote on Facebook.