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07/30/2010
Viktoria Plzeň drew 1:1 at home with the Turkish club Besiktas in their Europa League third qualifying round first leg on Thursday night. The Czech side went 1:1 ahead before the visitors managed to draw even with a penalty. In the same competition, Jablonec lost 1:0 away to APOEL Nicosia, while Baník Ostrava were beaten 1:0 by Dnepr Mogilev in Belarus.
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07/30/2010
Sparta Prague player Tomáš Řepka has been suspended over allegations he spat at an opponent during a game. Řepka has been barred from taking part in a league match against České Budějovice on Sunday, prior to a Czech football association disciplinary hearing next week. Sparta are reported to have already handed the defender an unspecified punishment for spitting at Ladislav Volešák of Slovácko in a game last weekend. Řepka, who is 36, is known for having a short fuse and an uncompromising style of play.
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07/30/2010
Prague’s Střelecký ostrov has become the unlikely venue for an outdoor fashion market. For three days the island, which can be reached via the most Legií bridge, will be home to around 80 stalls selling clothing and accessories made by students and graduates of fashion and design. Code:Mode also features a circus arts workshop and live music.
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07/29/2010
A Swiss official has said that the extradition of a fugitive Czech businessman, Tomáš Pitr, sentenced to five years for tax fraud and mismanagement of property in the Czech Republic, could take up to a year. A spokesman for the Swiss Justice Ministry made the statement on Thursday, a day after the Czech was taken into custody in St Moritz. Mr Pitr had been in hiding since 2007, when he failed to begin his jail sentence. Earlier this year, the 39-year-old received an additional six-year sentence in absentia for fraud and mismanagement of property that caused damage exceeding 700 million crowns to a number of state-controlled companies. Switzerland has called on Czech authorities to provide an official request for Pitr's extradition and the Czech Justice Ministry is expected to do so on Thursday. Justice Minister Jiří Pospíšil, meanwhile, said he believed there was a fifty/fifty chance extradition would be successful.
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07/29/2010
In related news, the justice minister has told reporters he will dismiss the head of the Czech Prison Service, Luděk Kula, as well as introduce a comprehensive audit and reform the Czech prison system. He made the comments on Thursday also saying that 40 percent of employees in the Prison Service’s General Directorate would be let go. The current head Luděk Kula, will be replaced by Jiří Tregler, the director of a prison in Pardubice, east Bohemia, in the interim.
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07/29/2010
Also on Thursday, the new justice minister revealed that he was cancelling a tender on an electronic surveillance system monitoring prisoners under house arrest. The minister indicated problems in the current tender (above all that it would allow a data bank on prisoners’ information to be owned and held by a private company) were unacceptable; he said only the state should have access to such details. A new tender on the surveillance system could now be called by the end of September.
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07/29/2010
Prague’s place on UNESCO’s list of World Heritage sites will not be threatened despite questions hanging over the city’s handling of renovations to the historic Charles Bridge or over the construction and impact of the new Blanka tunnel, Czech Radio reported. UNESCO representatives visited the Czech capital back in January to look at projects underway and to meet with local officials. A report based on their findings, the spokesman for the Culture Ministry said, recommended that Prague adopt clear rules overseeing the construction of new high-rise buildings; inspectors in the report also expressed regret that proper documentation and studies weren’t conducted in advance of renovation of the landmark Charles Bridge. However, Czech Radio reported, there is no danger of Prague being struck off the list of World Heritage sites. The World Heritage Committee has been meeting in Brasilia since Sunday to review the status of current members as well as to present new additions.
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07/29/2010
The Environment Ministry will earmark four billion crowns from the EU subsidies for the improvement of air quality in the Moravian-Silesian region, the Environment Minister Pavel Drobil said in Ostrava on Thursday. Mr Drobil also said he and the Ostrava officials would like to negotiate with major local polluters, namely local steel works and others. The city of Ostrava has also proposed possible solutions - measures, which would cost some 28 billion crowns which would tackle all three sources of pollution: large companies, transport and heating facilities. One of the largest polluters in the region, ArcelorMittal Ostrava steel works, has already cooperated with the Environment Ministry representatives, its CEO said, stressing that this year the company has taken steps to lowering emissions. The industrial and coal-mining area around Ostrava and Karviná is one of the most polluted areas not only in the Czech Republic but also in Central Europe.
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07/29/2010
The daily newspaper Právo reports that police have reopened the case of Jiří Kajínek, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1998 for murder. According to the paper, the police have already spent several months investigating whether the 1993 murder of a businessman and his bodyguard, for which Mr Kajínek was controversially sentenced, may have been committed by police officers. The investigation is apparently based on recorded conversations of the individual accused of actually ordering the killings, which allegedly say nothing about Mr Kajínek but rather attest to police involvement. Jiří Kajínek has always maintained his innocence and gained a great deal of media attention when he escaped from prison on two occasions.
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07/29/2010
More than 300 Czech tourists were left stranded at airports in Brno and Burgas, Bulgaria, when a return charter flight from the Czech Republic failed to depart on Wednesday due to a technical fault. Around 100 spent the night at Burgas airport while others transferred to a hotel, the spokesman for the Association of Czech Tour Operators and Agencies Tomio Okamura said. Central Charter Airlines, the company in question, commissioned two extra planes to deal with the situation. According to EU regulations individual airlines – and not tour operators – carry responsibility for flight delays and flight cancelation, Mr Okamura said.
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