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04/24/2007
Czech police officers are to undergo training in the use of firearms in crisis situations, according to Tuesday's edition of the economics daily Hospodarske Noviny. Petr Hantak, spokesman for the police presidium said that officers needed to have clear rules about when and how to use their firearm in order to make sound on-the-spot decisions in a crisis. Several incidents in the past few weeks have shown that some officers are inclined to be too hasty in using their guns. A policeman accidentally injured a pedestrian in Prague last week when shooting at a speeding car and in Ostrava a young girl sitting in the passenger seat of a car was seriously injured by a stray bullet which was meant to stop the driver.
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04/24/2007
Sixty-four percent of Czechs, including half of all smokers, would welcome separate non-smoking rooms in restaurants, according to a poll published in Lidove Noviny. Only twenty percent of respondents said it was unnecessary. The lower house of Parliament is to begin discussing a proposed amendment to the smoking law this week, which would further restrict smoking in public areas. The proposal envisages a smoking ban at children's playgrounds and stipulates that restaurants would have to have separate rooms for smokers. At present the owner can simply put up a smokers notice in one part of the restaurant without screening it off in any way. The Czech Republic remains one of the most liberal countries for smokers in Europe and observers say that efforts to push through a stricter legislation are likely to meet with strong opposition in Parliament.
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04/24/2007
The head of Hyundai Motor, Chung Mong-Koo, is to launch construction of the South Korean car giant's first European production plant in the Czech Republic on Wednesday. The company is investing 1.0 billion euros (1.36 billion dollars) in the plant at Nosovice, Moravia, the biggest ever single investment in the Czech Republic. The South Korean newcomer will produce 200,000 cars from 2009, rising to 300,000 when it reaches full production in 2011. Hyundai will produce its new i30 family hatchback at Nosovice, signalling its intent to grab a bigger share of the mainstream European car market. The Czech plant will later produce an MPV car-van hybrid, the company said.
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04/24/2007
A twenty two year old hit and run driver has been sentenced to three years in jail and banned from driving for a period of seven years. The court also ordered him to pay half a million crowns in compensation to the parents of a 14 year old girl who died as a result of the crash. The driver left for Britain several hours after the crash but later returned of his own accord when the police issued an Interpol arrest warrant. His defense attorney has appealed the verdict.
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04/23/2007
Radovan Krejcir, a fugitive billionaire wanted by the Czech police, has been detained in South Africa. Mr Krejcir, who is wanted for extensive fraud and conspiracy to murder, managed to escape from the Czech Republic during a police raid of his villa in 2005. He moved to the Seychelles, where the authorities refused to extradite him because he had bought Seychelles citizenship. Travelling under a false identity, Mr Krejcir was detained at Johannesburg airport on Saturday. His arrest is the result of a joint effort involving several countries, Czech Interior Minister Ivan Langer said on Monday. The Czech authorities are now in discussion with South Africa and will send an official request for Mr Krejcir's extradition this week.
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04/23/2007
Former Russian president Boris Yeltsin has died at the age of 76. In a letter of condolence sent to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek says Mr Yeltsin was a historic personality who led Russia's transformation from a Soviet state to a modern society. According to former Czech foreign minister Jiri Dienstbier, Mr Yeltsin will be remembered as the man behind the peaceful break-up of the Soviet Union. But Mr Dienstbier also finds Boris Yeltsin responsible for failing to prevent corruption leading Russia's economy.
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04/23/2007
There are several other countries that could host a US radar station, if the Czech Republic should decide against hosting it, the director of the US Missile Defence Agency, Henry Obering, said in Prague on Monday. Mr Obering visited the Czech capital to inform the country's politicians and National Security Council about the technical parameters of a radar station that the United States has requested to build in the Czech Republic as part of its missile defence system in Europe. Mr Obering said he hopes the two countries will complete talks by the end of this year.
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that Moscow is not happy with US-Russian talks on Washington's missile defence plan in Europe. The Russians have criticised the plan, saying it is a threat to their security. Mr Lavrov intends to discuss the issue at a NATO-Russia meeting in Oslo on Thursday.
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04/23/2007
In Prague, the head of the US Missile Defence Agency, Henry Obering, has not managed to change the country's second biggest party's position on the stationing of the US radar base on Czech territory. Social Democrat leader Jiri Paroubek said although Mr Obering answered a number of open questions, his party would continue to insist that such a radar base is part of the NATO defence system and that a referendum is held on whether it should be on Czech territory at all.
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04/23/2007
Police have confirmed that a suspicious suitcase discovered at Brno City Hall three weeks ago contained a functional bomb. Lab tests found that it was made of the explosive "danubit". The device was connected to a mobile phone, which was without a battery. An investigation is now underway to determine what the device, which is believed to have been made by an expert, was to be used for. The suitcase also contained clothes, a wig, and surgical gloves.
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04/23/2007
Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek has said the Czech government will approve a document on Wednesday under which the Melk Agreement between Prague and Vienna is considered closed. The agreement, signed in 2000, commits the Czechs to expert security at the Temelin nuclear power plant in South Bohemia. Speaking with Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer and Deputy Chancellor Wilhem Molterer in the Austrian capital on Monday, Mr Topolanek said the Czech Republic had met all terms. He added that border blockades and other such protests at the Temelin plant by Austrian anti-nuclear activists would be considered a violation of European directives and practices.
In Vienna, Mr Topolanek also objected to efforts at delaying the expansion of the Schengen zone. The Czech Republic is scheduled to enter the border-free zone at the start of next year but Austria has signalled that it would prefer to delay the enlargement process by several months or even a year.
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