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06/21/2022
A clean-up operation is underway in the wake of heavy storms that hit the central and eastern parts of the Czech Republic on Monday evening, damaging roofs, bringing down trees and power lines. Strong winds combined with torrential rain and hailstones raged in the Central Bohemia, Pardubice, Olomouc and Vysočina regions. Over 70,000 households were left without power and the storm left a 30-centimetre-high layer of hailstones in Křepice in the Znojmo region. 4,800 households were still without power on Tuesday morning and traffic was complicated by fallen trees.
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06/20/2022
Tuesday should be clear to partly cloudy with day temperatures between 21 and 25 degrees Celsius.
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Czech MEP suspends membership in STAN party over links with lobbyist at centre of corruption scandal
06/20/2022MEP Stanislav Polčák has suspended his membership in the Mayors and Independents party (STAN) because of his former links to businessman and lobbyist Michal Redl who is at the centre of a huge corruption scandal involving bribery, involvement in organized crime and suspicions of illicit drug and psychotropic substance use. The MEP rejected comparisons with the former Prague deputy mayor, Petr Hlubuček, who is among the eleven people charged in the case, but said he did not want to hurt the party through his former contacts. He made no mention of giving up his mandate as an MEP. Redl is a lobbyist with a shady past who is known to have had close links to Radovan Krejčíř, a Czech former organized crime boss and convicted criminal who is serving a prison term in South Africa.
Education Minister Petr Gazdík on Sunday resigned from both his government and party posts when it emerged that he had had several meetings with Mr. Redl and communicated with him via encrypted messages.
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06/20/2022
The head of the state-owned company Czech Post, Roman Knap, will leave office at the end of September. Mr. Knap confirmed his pending departure after a meeting with Interior Minister Vít Rakušan on Monday. He said the reason for his departure was not the fact that he had met with lobbyist Michal Redl who is at the centre of a huge corruption scandal, but the state of the company’s finances. An open competition will be held to fill the post.
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06/20/2022
Physically and mentally disabled people are frequent victims of abuse in the Czech Republic, according to the results of a survey conducted by In IUSTITIA. Some 76 % of people with disabilities said they had faced physical or psychological abuse at some point in their lives, and 58 % have met with prejudice-triggered violence. Only a fraction of those attacked reported the incident to the police. The most common forms of violence were verbal abuse, intimidation or threats. A significant proportion of respondents also reported experiencing physical or sexual assaults.
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06/20/2022
Archaeologists in the Břeclav region have uncovered an almost intact skeleton of a 6th century warrior and his two dogs. They came upon the remains while investigating one of the largest burial sites of the Germanic Langobards from the 6th century near the Nové Mlýny water reservoir. Pavla Růžičková from the Archaeological Institute of the Academy of Sciences, who announced the discovery, said that the exceptionally well-preserved skeletal remains will contribute to a closer understanding of the genetic composition of the Langobard population, its health or dietary habits.
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06/20/2022
Some 5,000 to 10,000 Ukrainian refugees could be moved from Prague to other regions within a motivation program to be launched by the government, Interior Minister Vít Rakušan said on Czech Television. He stressed however that the refugees must leave the capital voluntarily. Minister Rakušan said he did not consider it realistic that that it would be possible to motivate 30,000 refugees to leave Prague for other regions as Prague Mayor Zdeněk Hřib suggested. The prime minister and mayor of Prague agreed on the need to introduce a motivation program to even out the burden on different regions late last week after Prague closed down its centre for refugees saying it was no longer able to cope.
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06/20/2022
Sunday’s heatwave set a new temperature record in the Czech Republic for the month of June. The monitoring station in Řež near Prague registered a temperature of 39 degrees Celsius. The previous record set in 2019 at the Doksany station in the Ústí nad Labem region was one tenth lower. The June record was broken at ten monitoring stations active for at least 30 years, with 60 stations rewriting the record for June 19. The oldest station in the country, Prague's Klementinum, where the thermometer showed 36.9 degrees, also set a new high for that day. Klementinum in the centre of Prague has been monitoring the weather continuously since 1775.
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06/20/2022
The British heavy metal band Iron Maiden will perform live tonight at Prague's Sinobo Stadium (formerly Eden Arena). The band is giving a rescheduled concert from the Legacy of the Beast World Tour 2022. The tour began in 2019, but was suspended due to anti-pandemic measures.
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06/19/2022
Monday should be partly cloudy to overcast with heat storms and day temperatures between 28 and 33 degrees Celsius.
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