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07/13/2013
Seven people were injured in the eastern city of Opava on Saturday morning when a local train crashed into a delivery truck at a level crossing without barriers. The train, which was running from Bruntál to Opava Východ, was derailed during the collision. None of the injuries are regarded as serious.
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07/13/2013
A 52-year-old Prague man has been taken into psychiatric care after releasing gas in his apartment with a view to committing suicide. He phoned a helpline on Friday evening saying he was expecting to die once an explosion took place. However, his actions could have threatened the lives of the other residents in his building in the Břevnov district. The police and rescue workers managed to get to him before an explosion occurred.
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07/13/2013
Last term’s Czech cup winners Jablonec beat league champions Viktoria Plzeň 3:2 on Friday in the Super Cup, the curtain raiser for the 2013–2014 soccer season. The result means that Jablonec coach Roman Skuhravý has already picked up two trophies since being appointed in May. This year’s Super Cup game was the fourth since the competition’s inception. The first round of the top flight season takes place next weekend.
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07/12/2013
Former prime minister Petr Nečas has strongly condemned the police investigation of alleged corruption in his government. Speaking to reporters after being questioned by investigators on Friday, Mr Nečas said the investigation was a “fabricated political case”, and the state attorney overseeing the case was acting “wilfully”. The former cabinet leaders also said he would not step down as MP despite the fact the police has asked the lower house to strip him of his parliamentary immunity so that he can be prosecuted.
Petr Nečas stepped down as prime minister last month after the police arrested his chief of staff, Jana Nagyová, and three former MPs for his party, the Civic Democrats. The authorities believe the MPs were corrupted when they accepted posts in state run-firms in return for giving up their seats in the lower house to make way for government legislation. Ms Nagyová also allegedly tasked the country’s military intelligence with spying on Mr Nečas’ wife.
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07/12/2013
The Czech authorities last year confiscated record amounts of marihuana and methamphetamine, according to an annual report by the country’s anti-drug agency. In total, 563 kg of marihuana and nearly 32 kg of methamphetamine was confiscated in 2012. The police also registered an increase in the number of indoor marihuana growing operations while methamphetamine labs, mainly located in the border areas, increased their production. Last year, the police uncovered 199 marihuana grow ops, and confiscated over 90,000 marihuana plants. Most of the illicit drug was destined for the domestic market; however, large quantities were also to be exported to Ukraine, Hungary, the UK, and Scandinavia, the report says.
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07/12/2013
The Czech Justice Ministry Friday filed extradition request to the US embassy in Prague for US citizen Kevin Dahlgren who is wanted in the Czech Republic over four murders, a spokeswoman for the ministry said. The request was filed a day after the ministry received the respective documents from Brno prosecutors. Twenty-year-old Kevin Dahlgren is suspected of murdering a four-member family he was staying with in Brno in May. He then fled to the US where he was detained upon arrival and has since remained in custody.
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07/12/2013
The new environment minister, Tomáš Podivínský, has backed plans to expand the Temelín nuclear power station. Speaking to reporters after a visit to the plant on Friday, Mr Podivísnký said the planned construction of two new blocks was important for the country’s energy stability. While critics say it would be highly unprofitable to go ahead with the plan under current electricity prices, the minister said the energy market was distorted by subsidies for renewable sources of energy.
The state-owned energy firm ČEZ is planning to pick the winning bid for the multi-billion project this autumn; however, it’s not clear whether the caretaker government will award the contract, or whether the process will be concluded after the next general election.
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07/12/2013
President Miloš Zeman has nominated the chief justice of Prague’s Municipal Court, Jan Sváček for judge of the Constitutional Court, a spokeswoman for the Senate said. Mr Sváček was nominated by then-president Václav Klaus but Senators did not approve him for the post. Since his inauguration in March, Miloš Zeman has nominated eight candidates for the top court, seven of whom were approved.
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07/12/2013
A 24-year-old Czech woman was murdered in the US city of Chicago at the end of last month, a spokeswoman for the Czech Foreign Ministry said on Friday. The woman was reportedly stabbed and strangled to death in her apartment on the night of June 24. The homicide is under investigation by the Chicago police; however, it has affected the Czech community in the city and even led to disputes at the Czech general consulate in Chicago after one of its employees was fired for having provided unauthorized information. The Czech ambassador to the US, Petr Gandalovič, is set to visit the city at the end of July in an attempt to calm the situation.
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07/12/2013
The city of Brno faces major disruptions of its public transport system due to the renovation of a railway bridge in the centre of the city. Between July 14 and August 11, local and express trains will not stop at Brno’s Main Station but instead at the stations Brno-Židenice and Brno-Královo Pole. Passengers travelling to central Brno are advised to use buses and trams. Sections of several tram and trolleybus lines will also be closed due to reconstruction work during the summer.
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