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06/21/2024
The Regional Court in Brno has ruled that the Dietrichstein family tomb in Mikulov, South Moravia, belongs to the descendants of this noble family and should be returned to them. Mercedes Dietrichstein has thus won a long-standing court battle for the property. However, her attempts to regain other properties and land that belonged to her father, Alexander Dietrichstein failed. Dietrichstein’s property was confiscated by the Czechoslovak state immediately after the Second World War on the basis of the Beneš decrees on account of the fact that he was a member of Henlein's Sudeten German Party. Dietrichstein never actively opposed the confiscation of his property.
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06/21/2024
Croatian police have said they are investigating a 46-year-old Czech citizen in connection with Wednesday's explosion near the town of Obrovac that killed a nine-year-old boy and injured three people. Criminal investigators say the man allowed the child to carry an explosive device found at a marked military training ground into their car. The child subsequently caused it to explode during an unscheduled stop when the family car broke down. Two women, and the man being held accountable were hospitalised in Zadar following the blast.
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06/21/2024
The Czech opposition ANO party will withdraw from the liberal Renew Europe group in the European Parliament and from the European ALDE party, party leader Andrej Babiš announced at a press conference in Prague on Friday. Babiš said ANO would not be able to fulfil its program in the current faction. The party won seven seats in the elections. ANO will now enter into negotiations on membership in another faction. Babiš said joining the conservative right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists faction is not an option.
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06/21/2024
The City of Prague is set to buy a major city centre property. On Thursday evening councillors definitively approved the purchase of a building on the corner of Wenceslas Square and Štěpánská St. from the bank Komerční banka at a cost of CZK 3.5 billion.
The municipality plans to move officials to the new building from the Škoda Palace in Jungmannova Street, which it has leased until the end of March 2028.
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06/21/2024
The Czech swimmer Barbora Seemanová has taken gold in the 200 metres freestyle at the sport’s European Aquatics Championships in Belgrade. The 24-year-old finished 1.85 seconds ahead of her nearest competitor in a time of 1:55:37 in Thursday evening’s final.
Seemanová had earlier taken gold in the 100 metres at the championships.
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06/20/2024
The perpetrator of a mass shooting at a university in Prague in December had feelings of injustice, resentment and hatred and felt ostracised, unaccepted and useless, a state prosecutor, Jana Murínová, told the Czech lower house’s Security Committee on Thursday. In an address to MPs, she reiterated that according to expert assessments the student did not suffer from any serious psychological disorder.
Also speaking to the Security Committee on Thursday, the head of the Czech police, Martin Vondrášek, said two weak points in the force’s handling of the incident had been communication with the university administration and the police’s own analytical skills. He said there were several areas in which the police needed to improve.
Fourteen people were left dead and dozens injured after the young man carried out a mass shooting at the main building of the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague on December 21. He took his own life during the biggest mass shooting in modern Czech history. He had earlier killed a father and his baby in woodlands in an evident random shooting.
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06/20/2024
The Czech president, Petr Pavel, says he would not honour the Mašín brothers group, who shot their way to freedom across the Iron Curtain in the 1950s.
After the Senate proposed them for state honours on Wednesday, Mr. Pavel said in a debate with the public that aspects of Mašíns’ story would prevent him from respecting this wish.
Critics say the anti-Communist resistance group committed an immoral act when they killed an unarmed police officer.
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06/20/2024
The Czech capital’s biggest rock music festival, Metronome Prague, begins at the Výstaviště trade fair grounds on Thursday. The main headliner on the opening day of the three-day event is the UK singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka. Other acts performing at the event include The Last Dinner Party, Ride and Raye.
Metronome Prague has been a fixture in the city’s arts calendar since 2016.
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06/20/2024
The leading Czech men’s tennis player, Jiří Lehečka, is set to miss Wimbledon and the Olympic Games after suffering a fatigue fracture of his vertebrae. Lehečka, who is 22, announced the news on social media on Thursday. He has not played since the start of last month, when he pulled out of a tournament in Madrid.
The Czech’s career highest place in the world rankings was 23rd in January this year, after he won the Adelaide International.
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06/20/2024
A nine-year-old Czech child was killed when a car exploded in the Croatian town of Obrovac, which is near the coastal city of Zadar, on Wednesday evening, local media reported.
Croatian police said they were acting on the suspicion that the explosion was caused by a device planted in the vehicle.
Two women and one man were also injured in the blast and were taken to hospital in Zadar, where the man was subsequently released.
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