Interior Minister says posters showing him in body bag are test

Interior Minister Vít Rakušan has stated that he sees the posters that were found depicting him in a body bag as a test of his resilience. "Showing me in a body bag, I understand that as a test to see if I can take what I dish out to others. And I can take it," he wrote in a press release.

Posters showing the interior minister in a body bag with the words "Vít Rakušan and his whole family" appeared by the side of a road near Český Brod in the Central Bohemian Region, not far from Kolín. "Dragging my family into this is disgusting and says a lot more about the author than about me," he wrote. The police are investigating the matter as disorderly conduct.

Last year, on the occasion of Czechoslovak Independence Day on October 28, a large banner depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin in a body bag along with the Czech and Ukrainian flags was unfurled and hung on the Interior Ministry building in Prague. Mr. Rakušan defended the installation at the time, saying it showed who is Czechia’s friend and who has made himself an enemy.