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The opposition right-of-centre Civic Democrats say they will try and call a special meeting of Parliament's Defense Committee to look into steps taken by police at CzechTek - and will look for a chance to question Interior Minister Frantisek Bublan and the Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek in Parliament. There have already been repeated calls from some Civic Democrats for the interior minister to resign, calls he has rejected. On Monday Mr Bublan said if anyone was to blame it was the organisers of the event themselves, who, in his view, had refused to communicate with police.

Deputy to the police president Vladislav Husak, meanwhile admitted that riot police at CzechTek were caught off guard by what he described as the "brutality of the crowds".

After protesting in the thousands in front of the Interior Ministry on Sunday, dozens of protestors met again in front of the ministry on Monday afternoon, carrying placards criticising police action at CzechTek. Protestors are continuing blame the prime minister and the interior minister for what they see as unjustified police intervention at the weekend. An additional demonstration has been planned for Wednesday.

Four Czechs - two men and two women - have died while journeying in Spain, killed when their car collided with a truck. The accident took place near the towns of Avila and Salamanka. Exact causes remain unknown. These fatalities follow 30 deaths in road accidents in Spain at the weekend.

Interior Minister Frantisek Bublan has defended police intervention that on Saturday brought to an end an illegal music festival known as Czechtek. Police - numbering more than a thousand and in full riot gear - resorted to using tear gas and water cannons against hundreds of partygoers on a meadow near the village of Mlynec na Tachovsku, west Bohemia. Many refused to leave the grounds and began throwing bottles. According to reports dozens suffered mostly minor injuries, with around twenty partygoers and five officers suffering more serious wounds requiring medical attention.

Despite the clash, the interior minister called the police intervention "necessary", though he said he regretted there had been injuries. Mr Bublan pointed out that officers decided to act following an assessment by a public prosecutor and an authorised expert at the scene, who backed earlier complaints by neighbouring landowners that visitors had damaged private property and broken the law. Police gave a half-hour advance warning before resorting to force to push attendees off the grounds. On the whole some 5,000 visitors attended the Czechtek festival before it was rolled up Saturday.