Constitutional Court dealing with complaint over former communist bosses not being prosecuted for deaths on Iron Curtain

The Constitutional Court is dealing with a number of complaints over the fact that surviving Communist-era top officials have not been prosecuted over the deaths of 91 people who were killed on the Iron Curtain trying to escape Communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s. This concerns the party’s former chief ideologist Jan Fojtík and former communist prime minister Lubomír Štrougal who are now in their 90s. Fojtik’s case was shelved on the grounds that the statute of limitations has long expired, Štrougal's prosecution was stopped in May 2021 on the grounds that he was no longer mentally capable of understanding the meaning of the criminal proceedings against him.