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08/07/2015
The Interior Ministry on Friday opened a new detention facility for migrants in Vyšní Lhoty, in Moravia. The opening of the facility, originally scheduled for September, was speeded up due to a growing number of illegal migrants detained on Czech territory. It has a capacity of 220 beds and will be male-only. Up to 70 illegal migrants should be moved there from other camps by the end of the week. Most of them are from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan.
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08/07/2015
A Prague 1 court has ordered a rare painting dating back to 1350, Madona z Veveří, to be returned to the Czech Catholic Church. The verdict is not legally binding and the National Gallery which currently holds the painting, may appeal the decision. The Catholic Church staked a claim for the painting which it apparently owned for centuries before it became part of the National Gallery collection in 1958. The gallery refused to give it up on the grounds that the parish lost it before the onset of the communist regime, sometime in the late 1930s, and so it could not be reclaimed within the church restitution law.
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08/07/2015
The Czech Republic is experiencing a tropical heatwave with temperatures expected to reach 38 degrees Celsius and possibly even break the absolute record of 40.4 degrees Celsius dating back to 2012. The authorities have issued health warnings in connection with the extreme heat and a high-level-fire-risk warning remains in place. Extreme weather conditions are expected to continue for the next ten days at least, with this summer predicted to be the hottest on record.
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08/07/2015
The Czech Republic faces a diminished threat of terrorist attack this year according, to an evaluation produced by the consultancy Aon Belgium. The country’s risk is categorized as negligible, along with Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. Most European countries are given the higher ‘low’ risk label with France standing out in the higher medium risk category. The Czech Republic is one of 21 countries where the risk of terrorism is regarded by the study as having receded in the last 12 months.
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08/07/2015
In football, Jablonec earned a surprise 3:2 win away in the second leg of the Europa League qualifier against FC Copenhagen on Thursday night and continue on the away goal rule after losing at home 0:1. The Czech team took a two goal lead before the Danes fought back in spite of being down to 10 men. Jablonec survived a tense and often desperate last 10 minutes to hold onto the victory. In the same competition, neighbours Liberec won 3:0 against Israeli team HK Shmona following their first leg 2:1 victory.
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08/07/2015
An explosion of methane gas at OKD’s Darkov mine at Karvina killed three workers with another two injured, the ČTK agency announced on Friday morning. The accident happened just before midnight on Thursday as work was taking place underground. The injured are suffering from burns according to the tn.cz server. The mining company’s spokesman said the cause of the accident is being investigated by experts. Darkov escavates black or hard coal and is one of the few deep mines still functioning in the far east of the country.
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08/06/2015
Police are expected in the coming days to press charges against a gang which was preparing to break into a number of Prague villas, including those owned by minister of finance and ANO party leader, Andrej Babiš, the news weekly Respekt reported Thursday. The gang was considering kidnapping Babiš’ children as well. The magazine said police stumbled on the plot which was led by a gang of Albanians. They arrested nine gang members at the turn of the year. A Prague police investigator who was linked to the gang and tasked with giving them early warning if the law was on their trail is also under arrest, the magazine said.
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08/06/2015
The state has already been called to intervene in reaction to the prolonged drought. The state agency for emergency reserves has sent a water cistern with a capacity of 2,400 litres to the village of Holín in the Chrudim district of Eastern Bohemia after the wells ran dry. The village is not connected to the mains water supply. The cistern is set to be in place until October as wells are not expected to be usable immediately even if there is significant rainfall.
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08/06/2015
Around 1,400 Czech soldiers have started to take part in what has been dubbed the most important NATO exercise of the year. The Czech contingent, together with around 430 pieces of equipment including light armoured personnel carriers, are taking part in the Allied Spirit II exercises which will continue in Germany until the end of the month. As well as Czech forces, those from Germany, Hungary, the United States, Canada, Britain, and non-NATO partners Serbia and Georgia are taking part. The exercises are being held on training grounds between Regensburg and Nuremberg.
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08/06/2015
A British-based real estate company has bought out one of the Czech Republic’s biggest private owners of flats and property. Round Hill Capital announced the buyout of RPG Byty, which owns around 43,000 flats in and around Ostrava, on Thursday. The price paid was not given. The Czech company is partly owned by billionaire Zdeněk Bakala. The portfolio of flats around Ostrava was part of the package when the mining company OKD was controversially privatized and then re-sold. Round Hill, which has real estate assets in Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands, says it will not alter conditions for its Czech tenants.
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