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09/28/2023
Firefighters succeeded in putting out a fire in the Bohemian Switzerland national park on Thursday affecting an area of forest about 50 by 50 metres in size. Dozens of firefighters and a helicopter were called to the scene.
The fire broke out on Wednesday afternoon in very difficult-to-access terrain near Jetřichovice, about five kilometres as the crow flies from the area where the largest forest fire in Czech history, covering over 1000 hectares, raged last summer.
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09/28/2023
The number of migrants apprehended by police in the South Moravian Region is almost tenfold what it was at the beginning of the year, the Czech News Agency reports, citing information from the website of the Czech police. The police detained 35 migrants in January, while in September they have so far apprehended 292. The police have responded to the increase in migration by increasing random checks near the border, spokesman David Chaloupka said.
However, the number of detained refugees is still significantly lower than last autumn, when temporary border controls were introduced to deal with the wave of more than 100 migrants a day.
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NTSB determines pilot's inadequate training caused helicopter crash killing billionaire Petr Kellner
09/28/2023The March 2021 helicopter crash that killed Czech billionaire Petr Kellner and four others in Alaska was likely caused by pilot error and inadequate training, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing a report by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The NTSB determined that the probable cause of the accident was "the pilot's failure to adequately respond to an encounter with whiteout conditions, which resulted in the helicopter's collision with terrain." The operator's inadequate pilot training program and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) principal operations inspector's "insufficient oversight of the operator" also contributed to the accident, the NTSB report said.
Kellner, who was Czechia's richest man at the time of the crash, was the founder of the investment group PPF and had amassed wealth estimated at $17.5 billion at the time of his death, according to Forbes. He was the world's 68th richest person on Forbes' 2020 list, tied with media giant Rupert Murdoch and his family.
Kellner's family filed a lawsuit in April for a probe into potential negligence that caused the deadly crash.
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09/28/2023
Friday will continue to see good weather with sun and clear skies for most of the day, gradually becoming more overcast towards the evening. Daytime temperatures are expected to range between 19 and 25 degrees Celsius.
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09/28/2023
The traditional open-air mass commemorating the death of Czechia's patron saint, Saint Wenceslas, took place in the town of Stará Boleslav, northeast of Prague, on Thursday morning. Many believers made a pilgrimage to the town, some on foot, to attend the mass. Stará Boleslav is the place where Saint Wenceslas was murdered on September 28, 935 by a group of his opponents, among whom was his brother Boleslav.
Cardinal Dominik Duka led the mass, with the sermon being delivered by Bishop Jan Baxant of Litoměřice. President Petr Pavel, Senate President Miloš Vystrčil, and Prague Archbishop Jan Graubner were also in attendance, as well as other church leaders, politicians, army officials, and ambassadors.
Stará Boleslav is the oldest Czech pilgrimage site associated with the cult of Saint Wenceslas, which was spread throughout Europe by Charles IV. September 28 has been an official state public holiday in Czechia since 2000 and is marked in the calendar as the Day of Czech Statehood. The National St. Wenceslas Pilgrimage was restored by the Roman Catholic Church in 2003.
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09/27/2023
The Czech government has approved the purchase of 24 US-made F-35 aircraft at a total of CZK 150 billion. The minister of defence, Jana Černochová, said at a news conference on Wednesday that that amount also included all expenses related to the preparation of operations in Czechia.
The first of the fighter jets will be ready in 2029 and all 24 will be in the country by 2035, the minister said.
It will be the biggest defence contract ever signed by Czechia.
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09/27/2023
Miloš Zeman says he spoke by phone to Slovak politician Robert Fico ahead of his country’s elections this coming weekend. In a social media post on Wednesday the former Czech president said that it had been an interesting conversation and ended with the word “fingers crossed!”
Czechia’s current head of state, Petr Pavel, has said that a victory for the populist Fico could undermine Czech-Slovak relations.
The former Slovak PM has promised to end military aid to Ukraine, opposes NATO membership for that country and called Slovakia’s president a “US agent”.
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09/27/2023
Czechia’s University of Defence was the victim of a cyber-attack, with hackers evidently stealing data from the institution’s rector, iRozhlas.cz reported on Wednesday. The news website said the Municipal State Prosecutor’s Office in Brno was looking into the matter.
A spokesperson for the National Cyber and Information Security Agency said it would not comment on the matter as it was being investigated by the Military Police.
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09/27/2023
The Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague has opened a new pavilion that it says connects nature with modern technologies that can respond to the impacts of climate change.
The low-energy building with a green facade will be used by the Faculty of Environmental Sciences, representatives of the institution told reporters at Wednesday’s opening.
The construction of the pavilion took two years and cost CZK 269 million.
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09/27/2023
The leader of opposition ANO party, Andrej Babiš, has written to Prime Minister Petr Fiala, demanding he address Vít Rakušan’s continued presence as minister of the interior. In the letter, quoted on Wednesday by the Czech News Agency, Mr. Babiš says no member of Rakušan’s Mayors party should be entrusted with that role.
ANO’s Alena Schillerová has said that if Mr. Rakušan remains in government her party will next week push for a vote of no-confidence.
ANO say Mr. Fiala does not appreciate the gravity of the fact Mr. Rakušan possessed an encrypted telephone. For his part the interior minister said he feared being bugged and had hardly used the device.
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