Well the story came up last summer, but the trial reported in this thread only happened today, so it's hardly old news.

In fact it was a retrial - here's a link to the report of the last trial, in December. That ended with the jury being unable to agree on a verdict, even after being told that a majority verdict would do. Which implies that at least three jurors wanted to convict on that occasion (or possibly at least three wanted to acquit).

So far as I know there weren't any prosecutions of people for toppling statues of discredited politicians in Eastern Europe a few years ago.