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12/09/2014
The police are investigating explosions at an ammunitions depot in eastern Moravia last week as a case of wanton endangerment. The leader of a police pyrotechnics team which has been examining the site at the village of Vrbětice said on Tuesday that the blasts were very unlikely to have occurred accidentally. Two people were killed when a munitions store blew up in mid-October. The situation seemed to have calmed before more explosions began at an adjacent depot last Thursday. Locals have been critical of the handling of the situation and it has become a political matter.
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12/09/2014
Suspicious parcels were delivered to Prague Castle, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of the Interior on Tuesday, the Czech News Agency reported, quoting an informed source. While the Ministry of the Interior and Prague Castle refused to either confirm or deny the report, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Justice said it had received a parcel containing a powdery substance. Parcels containing poison – sent from Sweden and Slovenia – were received by Czech ministries at the end of November, leading to a beefing up of security. Other suspicious packages were found to not contain dangerous materials.
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12/09/2014
The minister of culture, Daniel Herman, has removed protected status from a painting in the possession of the Czech National Gallery, clearing the way for its return to members of the Jewish family that originally owned it. The family had been awarded the 18th century work by Francesco Solimen – which was seized from them by the Nazis – in a restitution hearing; however, its status as belonging to the Czech cultural heritage meant it could not be taken out of the country.
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12/09/2014
The police in Jeseník, north Moravia have arrested on fraud charges a man who faked his own death. The man, who is 51, is accused of taking a loan of CZK 2 million in 2012 and soon afterwards, unbeknownst to his own family, obtaining a falsified Russian death certificate and organising his own funeral. He then bought various businesses while posing under a made-up name and as his own brother and allegedly carried out fictitious deals between them, creaming off VAT refunds to the tune of CZK 5 million. Police said the case was unique in the Czech Republic.
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12/09/2014
Morphosis by previous winner Boris Carloff is among the nominees for the 2014 Apollo award for best Czech pop album of the year. Analogous to the Mercury Prize in the UK, the award is voted on by leading music critics and was first presented in 2011. The other nominees are Adrian T. Bell (for Different World), Lenka Dusilová and Baromantika (V hodině smrti), Dva (Nipomo), Kieslowski (Mezi lopatky), Skleník (Champagne Cork Pop) and Zrní (Následuj kojota). The winner – who gets CZK 60,000 and a statuette designed by Maxim Velčovský – will be announced on February 5.
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12/09/2014
A breakfast meeting between Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka and his French counterpart Manuel Valls at the French Embassy in Prague on Tuesday morning recalled a famous meeting between French President Francois Mitterand and members of Czechoslovakia’s dissident movement at the embassy 26 years ago. The first meeting in 1988 between President Mitterand and dissidents such as the late Václav Havel (who later became president), Václav Malý and others, effectively recognized the role and importance of the dissident movement less than a year before communist regimes began to fall across Eastern Europe. Two former dissidents – Karel Srp and Petr Uhl – were present at the meeting on Tuesday.
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12/09/2014
Forty-two-year-old Czech hockey legend Jaromír Jágr – the most productive European player in NHL history – marked a new milestone on Monday night, playing in his 1,500th NHL game. The forward right-wing, who plays for the New Jersey Devils, joined 15 other players before him who reached that mark. On Monday, Jágr scored a tying goal against Carolina and assisted on the winner scored by Adam Henrique.
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12/08/2014
The Czech Football Association is preparing the ground for a so-called revolution-slash-evolution in online documentation. Specifically, as of July 1st, 2015, all relevant match documentation will have to be online, according to news site iDnes. The move includes player registration and all match notes as well as trades and loans of players, in all leagues, from the highest to local organisations. The head of the FA Rudolf Řepka suggested the project was the one of the most important undertaken by football’s governing body in years.
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12/08/2014
The Czech School Inspectorate has found that roughly five percent of schools checked by the bureau were risky when it came to security. The Inspectorate investigated almost 5,500 schools and school buildings at the behest of the government, following an attack by a mental patient at a Czech high school in October which left a 16-year-old student dead. The inspectorate checked more than half of existing institutions, finding that security at nine nursery schools, four elemntary schools and two high schools was practically non-existent.
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12/08/2014
Finance Minister Andrej Babiš has said that residents in Vrbětice near Zlín should receive compensation from the company owning a dangerous munitions storage site, rocked by explosions that have levelled a number of buildings and killed two employees. The company came under fire from the minister on Sunday, when he suggested the it had less than a good name. The group’s lawyer, Radek Ondruš, has since demanded an explanation and warned the company may sue. The deputy prime minister shrugged off the threat, saying it wasn’t clear what the firm expected of him. Mr Babiš said his judgment of the company was based on publically-available sources, adding he hadn’t revealed any “state secrets”.
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