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08/20/2010
A family of three are in critical condition after consuming poisonous wild mushrooms. Kromeříž hospital, where they were admitted with symptoms of severe food poisoning, had them transferred by helicopter to Brno where there is a unit specializing in such cases. Mushroom picking is a national pastime which thousands of Czechs engage in during the summer months. People are repeatedly warned not to pick mushrooms they do not recognize.
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08/20/2010
An ultra-light plane crashed in a field in the suburbs of Prague on Friday. The plane was coming down for a landing at the Letnany airfield when the accident occurred. The pilot sustained serious injuries. Although the accident happened not far from the Letnany metro station, no one else was at risk and traffic in the vicinity was not restricted. The cause of the accident is being investigated.
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08/20/2010
Police are searching for thieves who stole a bronze statue of Czechoslovakia’s first president Tomáš G. Masaryk from its pedestal in a park in the town of Jaromeří. The thieves worked under cover of night, causing damage to the tune of 300,000 crowns. Police suspect the theft was commissioned.
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08/19/2010
Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Christian Wulff on Thursday during a working visit to Berlin. The official visit is the Prime Minister’s first in Germany since taking power. The main themes for discussion were expected to be the economy, energy relations and energy security. The German press agency reported that the Czech PM told journalists that he had no intention to raise the issue of the Beneš Decrees, saying that Czech-German relations must focus on the future. Germany is the Czech Republic’s biggest trade partner and accounts for around a third of Czech exports.
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08/19/2010
The excavation of a field where over a dozen Germans civilians are thought to have been murdered and buried immediately after World War Two has resulted in the discovery of six bodies. Local police investigating the event in the village of Dobronín near Jihlava say the remains have been removed for DNA identification and that the dig is now over. Local journalist Miroslav Mareš, who requested the investigation, said Thursday that he was surprised that more bodies had not been uncovered, but that he had full confidence in the work of the police. Testimonies given by the children of the alleged victims suggest that between 11 and 15 Germans were beaten to death by local Czech residents in May of 1945, just weeks after the end of the war. Police detectives opened the case as a murder investigation in September of last year.
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08/19/2010
Meanwhile, the leader of the displaced Sudeten Germans, Bernd Posselt, welcomed the efforts of the Czech authorities to cast light on crimes relating to the displacement. In a statement to the press, Mr Posselt also called upon Prime Minister Nečas to support investigations into post-war offences and annul so-called impunity laws that sanctioned numerous offences again German civilians in the aftermath of the war.
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08/19/2010
The region of Liberec was reported to be entirely accessible to traffic on Thursday, nearly two weeks after severe flash floods caused more than two billion crowns in damages to local road infrastructure. A number of detours are still in place and drivers are warned that some roads remain in poor condition. Road connections to many parts of the region were completely severed immediately after the floods, which destroyed seven bridges and left another 112 damaged. Some 830 firemen and 660 soldiers are currently aiding in the ongoing cleanup. Electricity has been returned throughout the region, however 330 households remain without gas and 230 of those lack drinking water.
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08/19/2010
The Czech Army has announced it will be sending its first Pandur armoured vehicles to Afghanistan in the autumn. The four personnel carriers were custom-modified as combat versions for use by the Czech Provincial Reconstruction Team in Logar at a cost of tens of millions of crowns. Another 14 Iveco army vehicles will also be sent for use by the training and advisory team in the south of the Wardak province. The armoured carriers in question are currently at the centre of a corruption investigation by Czech and Austrian police, who believe the Austrian manufacturers may have arranged kickbacks on the sale of the vehicles for Czech political parties.
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08/19/2010
The City of Prague has adopted new regulations for holding public tenders, putting the City Council in charge of tenders worth more than six million crowns. According to the new rules, municipal departmental directors will only be able to announce tenders up to that amount, and companies without clear ownership structures will be excluded from participation. Until now, departmental directors could announce tenders of up to 20 million crowns. The changes are the result of a new anti-corruption strategy passed by the council in June and will apply not only to City Hall but also to the companies owned by the local government, including the transit company, the congress centre and the Municipal House. A new and stricter code of conduct for city councillors is also being prepared.
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08/19/2010
Labour Minister Platy Jaromír Drábek has put forward a proposal for amendment that would see salaries for state employees decreased by 10% across the board as of 2011. State employees’ unions are strongly opposed to the plan, which they say entails real wage losses of far more than 10% and a considerably lower part of their pay guarantees by law. Chairwoman of the primary union of state employees, Alena Vondrová, told reporters on Thursday that the ministry had broken the law by failing to negotiate the matter with its social partners, and said that workers should turn out in the streets en masse if the proposal is implemented.
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