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04/07/2007
A man has died following a crash between two heavy goods lorries on the D5 motorway to Pilsen late on Friday night. The forty-five year old driver of one of the trucks died after crashing into the back of another lorry which had braked to avoid hitting a stationary car. The drivers of the other vehicles were treated for shock and light injuries. The D5 motorway was closed for several hours on Saturday morning to allow for clearing operations.
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04/07/2007
A twenty-year-old man is in intensive care after jumping from a bridge in Pilsen onto a train's coal wagon early on Saturday morning. The man leapt onto the train wagon but subsequently fell onto the tracks when he was electrocuted after standing up and touching a live overhead wire. He was flown to a special unit in Prague where doctors are treating him for burns on 50% of his body. His condition has been described as very serious but stable.
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04/07/2007
Czech daily Mlada fronta Dnes reported on Saturday that one and a quarter million Czech drivers have a licence that is due to expire by the end of this year and that transport authorities are probably not going to be able to issue all of them with new licences by January 31st. If this happens, drivers will not be allowed behind the wheel until new driving permits are issued. The paper estimates that several hundred thousand drivers could be affected. The Czech Ministry of Transport has been criticised in some quarters for not coordinating a nationwide campaign to highlight the problem so as to avoid a situation whereby local authorities are inundated with "last-minute" licence applications near the end of the year.
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04/06/2007
The Czech government will have no money to remove a pig farm from the site of a former Second World War concentration camp for Romanies in Lety, south Bohemia, Civic Democrat Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek told journalists on Friday. Mr Topolanek said that although every government up to now had supported the idea of relocating the farm, no administration would ever be able to find the necessary funds to do so in the state budget. It has been estimated that it could cost as much as eight hundred million crowns or thirty eight million dollars to relocate the farm. Instead of talking this step, the prime minister has supported the idea of building a memorial nearby, which he has called a dignified but affordable solution to the problem. Mr Topolanek's remarks have been criticised by groups representing Romany Holocaust victims. Three hundred and twenty six people died in the concentration camp where the farm is now located.
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04/06/2007
The inspectorate of the Ministry of the Interior has filed corruption charges against three officers from the foreigners' police in the north Moravian town of Jesenik. The men were arrested on Friday and charged with taking money from Vietnamese nationals in return for arranging residency permits in the Czech Republic. Two foreigners have also been arrested and charged in the case. All five men could face prison sentences if found guilty in court.
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04/06/2007
Ten new security cameras began operating on Charles Bridge on Friday. Prague city hall installed the cameras in response to a number of acts of vandalism targeting statues on the Czech capital's most famous monument. The cameras will allow for events on Charles Bridge to be monitored twenty four hours a day by state and city police. Of the thirty one statues on Charles Bridge, eighteen have already been vandalised or damaged in some way.
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04/06/2007
Deputy Prime Minister and Green Party chairman Martin Bursik has said that his party might leave the coalition government if Regional Development Minister and Christian Democrat leader Jiri Cunek remains in the cabinet. In an interview for Czech Television on Thursday, Mr Bursik said the Green Party would have problems staying in the governing coalition with Jiri Cunek still being a minister. Minister Bursik said he could see no other solution but Mr Cunek's departure from the government.
These developments are likely to put further pressure on Deputy Prime Minister Jiri Cunek, who has been charged with taking a bribe as mayor of the town of Vsetin five years ago, but who has so far refused to resign. Mr Cunek has also been heavily criticised for making offensive remarks about Romanies.
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04/06/2007
Meanwhile in related news, a new poll indicates that an overwhelming majority of Czechs think that politicians should resign from their post if they are charged with a crime. The survey conducted by the CVVM research agency found that 96% of the Czech population think that a politician should resign in such an event even if the criminal charges are not directly related to his or her area of responsibility.
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04/06/2007
Five American military experts completed a preliminary survey of the Brdy military area, south west of Prague on Friday. They were studying conditions for the possible building of a radar base in the area as part of a US missile defence system. The factors they considered included whether the radar could limit the transmissions of nearby facilities, such as television and radio. The experts will assess the data collected in Brdy in the weeks ahead. The Czech government officially started negotiations with the United States on the stationing of a US radar base in March when it replied to a request by the Americans in January to locate the base on Czech territory. Negotiations are expected to last until the end of the year.
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04/06/2007
The city of Prague will provide housing to three Cuban families who were granted asylum in the Czech Republic recently, Prague councillor Jiri Janecek told the Czech Press Agency on Friday. The families were granted asylum here last month after fleeing religious and political persecution in Cuba. Czech Interior Minister Ivan Langer had asked the Prague City Hall to provide flats for the refugees. Prague has already provided housing to 131 asylum holders in the past 4 years.
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