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03/14/2015
Police in Prague have arrested a man suspected of stabbing another man at Invalidovna station in the city’s Metro system on Thursday. The suspect attacked a 39-year-old man who was getting onto a train and stabbed him in the neck before fleeing the scene. The victim, who sustained a deep wound, was taken to the city’s Na Homolce hospital. Police say there are no indications the two knew each other.
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03/14/2015
The freshly appointed minister of justice, Robert Pelikán, has apologised in writing to three architects who are seeking compensation from the state over a court case they were involved in dragging on for 23 years, iDnes.cz reported. The three were last year cleared in a case brought by a former teacher who demanded an apology for their alleged slander in accusing him of demagoguery and careerism during the 1989 Velvet Revolution. Mr. Pelikán expressed deep regret over the matter and described the length of the legal battle as shocking.
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03/14/2015
Foreign direct investment into the Czech Republic grew 70 year-on-year in 2014, according to data released on Friday by the Czech National Bank. Around two-thirds of the CZK 120 billion invested in the country by foreign companies last year came from neighbouring Germany. Property and financial services were the most popular investment, attracting half of the total figure between them.
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03/14/2015
Prague’s Divadla Na Zábradlí (Theatre on the Balustrade) swept the boards at the annual Theatre Critics’ Awards on Friday night. It was named Theatre of the Year for 2014, its Velvet Havel was named Production of the Year and it picked up several other gongs in other categories. The winning production was a dramatic, music-infused interpretation of the life of late president and playwright Václav Havel, whose career took off at the theatre in the 1960s. The awards are organised by the magazine Svět a divadlo.
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03/14/2015
The Social Democratic Party have elected deputy chairpersons at a congress in Prague. Delegates cast their ballots for foreign Minister Lubomír Zaorálek, lower house speaker Jan Hamáček, Labour and Social Affairs Minister Michaela Marksová Tominová, hitherto deputy chairman for the economy Martin Starec and deputy health minister Lenka Teska Arnoštová. Milan Chovanec was elected statutory chairman, the second-highest post in the party. The outcome of Friday evening’s voting is seen as reinforcing the position of party leader and prime minister Bohuslav Sobotka, who backed all of those approved and had stood unopposed for the top job earlier in the day.
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03/13/2015
Former astronaut Charles Duke, who flew to the moon as part of Apollo 16, is in Prague for the opening of an exhibition called Gateway to Space. Duke, who turns 80 this year, told news website iDnes he would “love to return to the moon” where he said he had not felt afraid but “at home”. Duke, who was born in Charlotte, South Carolina, studied at West Point and is an engineer and retired army pilot. He was the 10th and also the youngest person to walk on the moon’s surface, in 1972. In Prague the former astronaut stressed the importance of the pursuit of new space missions, including missions to Mars.
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03/13/2015
Suppliers said in a press conference on Friday that it will take more than eight months to replace damaged electric cables in the as yet unopened Blanka tunnel in the Czech capital. The launch of the long-awaited complex was delayed indefinitely after extensive water damage was discovered. The cost of the tunnel is estimated at at least 37 billion crowns. It is unclear who will pay for the damage; the city of Prague is weighing whether to launch arbitration proceedings. Blanka tunnel was originally scheduled to open at the end of 2011, and later postponed several times. The last proposed opening date was April of this year.
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03/13/2015
The police have revealed that at around 11 PM on Thursday night they stopped a motorist on the D11 highway in the direction of Prague from Hradec Králové going roughly 250 kilometres per hour, in other words some 120 kilometres over the speed limit. The 52-year-old driver explained he had been rushing to get home to his family. Every year, the police stop motorists going around 200; in the past 280 km/h was registered, an official said. The man stopped on Thursday risks losing his driver’s permit for one year and a 10 thousand crown fine.
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03/13/2015
Police in Prague arrested a Bulgarian national on Friday wanted on an international arrest warrant. The 25-year-old was on run after being found guilty for his role in the ritual murders of three people in his homeland. The murders were described as being particularly brutal and sadistic; the convicted man fled before beginning to serve a 16 year sentence. Police narrowed down possible locations in Europe to the Czech Republic; the wanted man was found and captured in Prague’s Radotín district. He tried to resist arrest and will remain behind bars pending deportation.
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03/13/2015
Police have called on the state prosecution service to charge a former hospital nurse alleged to have killed six patients at a hospital in the north Bohemian town of Rumburk. Police said they had completed their investigation and wanted charges to be pressed which could result in a sentence of life imprisonment for the accused. The investigation into Věra Marešová was launched last September after the death of one patient which was first thought to have been a mercy killing through an overdose of potassium, but it was soon widened to a series of suspect deaths.
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