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06/25/2010
A man driving a stolen car was chased by police from Prague’s Letná Plain to Holešovice district at midday Friday, putting drivers and pedestrians at risk and smashing three cars before he was apprehended. The police eventually forced him into a blind alley and ended the wild chase. The man and a fellow passenger are now being questioned by police. Luckily no one was hurt in the incident.
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06/25/2010
An eighteen-month-old toddler was killed by an express train in the town of Vráňany near Prague after leaving her grandmother’s side unnoticed. The child apparently wandered off, got onto the tracks and walked along them to meet an oncoming express train. She was killed on impact. The child’s grandmother has had a nervous breakdown. The police are investigating the accident on suspicion of negligence.
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06/25/2010
A thirty-three-year old man from west Bohemia has been sentenced to seven and a half years in jail for molesting and sexually abusing three schoolgirls between the age of 11 and 13. One of the girls was raped, the other two were sexually abused. The man knew all the girls well having intentionally approached and made friends with their parents. When he left the courthouse the man was wearing a mask for fear that the girls relatives would want to take their revenge.
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06/24/2010
The vice-chair of the Civic Democratic Party, Miroslava Němcová, has been elected speaker of the lower house of Parliament. All 200 members of the Chamber of Deputies were present for the secret ballot, in which Ms Němcová received 118 votes, or the exact number of members from the emerging coalition. The runner-up for the position, Lubomír Zaorálek of the Social Democratic Party, received 79 votes. He was elected later Thursday afternoon as deputy speaker, a post which he held in the previous Parliament. The other two deputy speakers will be Vlasta Parkanová of TOP 09 and Kateřina Klasnová of Public Affairs.
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06/24/2010
The parties negotiating a new centre-right government appear to have clashed over the share out of seats in a future government. The Civic Democrats, TOP 09 and Public Affairs had signed an agreement for a 6:5:4 share out of 15 ministerial portfolios in a future government. But TOP 09 leader Karel Schwarzenberg said his party is still sticking to its demand that it have equal weight with the Civic Democrats in terms of overall influence and heavyweight cabinet posts, according to the daily Lidové noviny. TOP 09 deputy leader Miroslav Kalousek has reportedly demanded to be the next finance minister, with the responsibilities of that office undiminished, or threatened not to be in the government at all. Civic Democrats have previously said the prime minister and finance minister should come from the same party.
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06/24/2010
The leaders of the three parties have signed an agreement to restrict the immunity of members of both houses of Parliament. The proposal would amend constitutional law in order to allow parliamentarians to be investigated for misdemeanours. Each chamber would still be able to refuse to allow their members to be investigated, though such investigations may be made once the parliamentarian completes his or her mandate. The three parties intend to submit the bill to Parliament on Thursday as a joint proposal. They anticipate the support of the Social Democratic Party, without which they lack the votes to pass the measure.
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06/24/2010
The Senate has proposed modifications to point penalties received for certain infringements of road rules. According to the proposal, points would no longer be deducted for exceeding speed limits by 5 km/h, driving without headlights and driving with a blood-alcohol content of up to .03%. Moreover, the point penalty for failure to wear seat belts or jeopardising other motorists would be increased. While the proposal maintains the “zero tolerance” policy towards drink-driving, offenders would not be penalised with points but with a fine of up to 5,000 crowns. The bill will now be reviewed by the Chamber of Deputies.
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06/24/2010
In related news, the Senate has backed a proposal to officially recognise active members of the anticommunist resistance. Depending on their degree of involvement, people involved in combating communism would have the position of veterans of war. Such persons would include those responsible for sabotage, assisting escape over the country’s closed borders, organising demonstrations and petitions and persons imprisoned for at least three years because of their ideologies. A similar bill was approved in the Senate in 2008 but was never read in the Chamber of Deputies.
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06/24/2010
The daily Mladá fronta Dnes reported Thursday that the Minister of Finance, Eduard Janota, has prepared a proposal to cut housing subsidies for 25,000 soldiers by 36%. Preliminary calculations suggest that the measure would save the state one billion crowns per year. According to MF Dnes, security negotiators from the emerging coalition are not opposed to the idea; the Minister of Defence, it says, is aware of the plan but does not intend to comment.
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06/24/2010
The Dvořák Sec Contemporary Gallery in Prague has filed a suit with the Municipal Court for the protection of a controversial project by the guerrilla art group Ztohoven. Last week, police impounded an exhibit by the group that displayed falsified citizen identification cards. The gallery said on Thursday that it would make every effort to allow the project to be respected as a topical work of art that reflects the period in which it was made. The project, called “Citizen K” (a play on the word “ID card” in Czech) was ostensibly intended to show expose the ease with which personal information can be misused. The members used the falsified IDs to travel, vote and even marry over the course of six months.
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