About two years ago, he met an English woman named Megan. They now have plans to marry. For those seven years, Richard has seen a steady rise in skinhead and neo-Nazi activity. Most of the skinheads in the Czech Republic come from economically depressed communities. They're looking for answers in a world where living wages and standards have plummeted.
Skinheads believe Romanies are to blame for some of their problems.
In most of Eastern Europe, that ethnic minority is the Romany population. Earlier the day of the concert, I'd visited the Czech Press Photography Exhibition. Some of the winning photos were of a Romany teenage girl in an open coffin. Her weeping relatives surrounded the modest, tiny box. The girl had been chased by three white Czech men into an icy river, where she drowned.