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07/08/2013
A model of the Nazi internment camp for Czech Romanies at Lety was unveiled at the camp’s original site in Lety on Monday. The model was made by business school students in Teplice and completing it was a painstaking process since there is no proper documentation of the site. The students worked on the basis of several faded photographs from private photo-collections. The last survivor interned at the camp died last year. Over 1300 Romanies were interned in the Lety camp during the Nazi occupation, 327 of them perished in the camp and over 500 were sent to the extermination camp in Auschwitz.
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07/08/2013
A newborn baby girl who was dumped into a waste container in the town of Cheb was found in time and is in an incubator in hospital. The baby was suffering from hypothermia, but was otherwise unhurt. Police have asked potential witnesses to come forward. It is not clear why the child was dumped in a garbage container when there is a baby box in Cheb where the newborn would have received immediate attention.
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07/08/2013
Czech Railways has announced that due to regular maintenance work in the summer months trains between Olomouc and Prostějov will not be running on schedule from Monday to Friday. Some trains will be rerouted via Přerov, others will be replaced by a special bus service. Passengers are asked to verify their connection on the internet or check with information before setting out.
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07/07/2013
The České Budějovice city hall is planning steps to diffuse growing racial tension in the wake of more street violence over the weekend. City mayor Juraj Thoma said the city council had decided to hold public hearings on problems of co-existence at the Maj housing estate where citizens could air their complaints or table suggestions. The first of these hearings is to take place on Tuesday. The city has seen a second week of racial unrest triggered by an incident in a children’s playground where Roma and non-Roma parents got into a huge fight. Although the police had the situation under control the authorities fear that racial tension in the city will escalate further in the coming days.
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07/07/2013
Over 130 people were detained and eight injured in Saturday’s anti-Romany protests in České Budějovice. Police were out in force across the city, fencing off a demonstration of some 400 far-right protesters from a Roma gathering at the Maj housing estate. The riot squad used tear gas and mounted police to get the situation under control. Special security measures remained in place throughout the night and police patrolled the streets on Sunday. No one has been charged in connection with the street violence.
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07/07/2013
Martin Pecina, who is to serve as interior minister in the Rusnok caretaker cabinet, on Sunday severely criticized the austerity measures that reduced the police force by close to ten thousand officers in the past eight years. He said he would strive to increase their numbers especially in areas where extremism was now proving to be a serious problem. Mr. Pecina said he would like to see Romanies themselves involved in the process of restoring law and order, saying that it was better to employ Roma citizens as police assistants for a proper wage than to give them the same amount of money in social welfare.
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07/07/2013
The Czech Foreign Ministry has issued a fresh warning to Czech tourists in Egypt. The ministry urges Czech citizens to stay away from the big cities, such as Cairo, Alexandria and Luxor and to refrain from making solo trips to the north of the country if at all possible. The ministry says that while Egypt’s Red sea tourist resorts are still considered safe, people should exercise caution at any location and stay away from public gatherings and demonstrations.
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07/07/2013
Czech rail traffic to and from Prague’s Masaryk train station was severely disrupted in the early hours of Sunday after a thief damaged the station’s electric rail-shifting system. The thief was after cables for scrap metal and although he was disturbed by a police patrol he damaged several cables so badly that the entire system was paralyzed. Trains were rerouted to the main railway station for close to four hours before things returned to normal.
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07/07/2013
The German and Austrian embassies in the Czech Republic are hoping to convince more Czech schoolchildren to choose German as a second foreign language, which will be a compulsory subject in the coming school year. Over the past twenty years interest in learning German has slumped among Czech primary school children despite that fact that the neighbouring states offer lucrative job opportunities for people speaking the language. According to statistics 98 percent of Czech schoolchildren chose to learn English at school.
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07/07/2013
The 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ended with an award ceremony in Hotel Thermal on Saturday night. The festival’s main prize – the Crystal Globe for the best feature film - went to Le grand cahier, a German- Austrian-French coproduction directed by Hungarian film director Janos Szasz. An international jury, chaired by Polish director Agniezka Holland, gave the Special Jury Award to the British film A Field in England, directed by Ben Wheatley, while the Polish film Floating Skyscrapers by Tomasz Wasilewski received the main award in the East of the West section. The triple Oscar winning American director, scriptwriter and producer Oliver Stone received the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema, as did American actor John Travolta, who was the biggest celebrity at the festival this year.
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