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12/07/2009
On Sunday, TV Nova reported that Prime Minister Jan Fischer had undergone special security training. Members of the Czech police security service division instructed Mr. Fischer, who is the first Czech prime minister to receive such training, in tactics of how to react in the case of a violent attack. The prime minister’s family has been under police protection since spring of this year, after police received information that members of the right wing extremist group White Justice were planning an attack on Mr. Fischer’s son. According to Mr. Fischer, there have been two occasions of serious threats against his family.
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12/07/2009
A special team of Prague’s criminal police on Monday arrested 9 Rumanians and their Czech accomplices who had been preying on senior citizens. The group operated in and near post-offices, where they approached senior citizens who had just withdrawn money from their bank account with the post office. The pick-pockets are said to have distracted their victims by asking them for directions. Active over several months, the group is suspected to have been responsible for 42 acts of pick-pocketing and to have caused damages totaling about a half million Czech crowns.
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12/07/2009
On Monday, a government session designed to determine the maximum amount of certain drugs for personal possession was postponed. A decision was made on the number of certain psychedelic plants that can be owned legally - Czechs can now own up to 40 pieces of psychoactive mushrooms and five cacti of varieties such as Peyote that contain the substance mescaline without facing legal consequences. Marijuana possession has been declared illegal for quantities over 15 grams. The government will finalize its list of fixed quantities that is meant to serve as a guideline for courts and police in two weeks, when it will discuss synthetic drugs.
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12/07/2009
The Communist Party has drafted a new amendment that would make the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes a part of the National Archives. The institute holds documents and files written by the Communist regime before 1989. Communist MP Kateřina Konečná told journalists on Monday that the party considers the institute’s decision to publish an index of former secret police agents wrong and that it could harm individuals and their families. Should the amendment be approved by the Czech parliament, employees of the institute would no longer have privileged access to the materials.
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12/07/2009
An event organized by the animal-rights group PETA drew the attention of passersby on Prague’s Charles Bridge. As part of PETA’s “We’d rather go naked than wear fur”- campaign, participants passed out flyers wearing nothing but underwear, with their skin painted to resemble snake skin, a material sometimes used for the production of purses and shoes. The campaign is meant to persuade consumers to purchase items made from synthetic materials instead. Similar events have taken place in Geneva, Milan and Budapest.
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12/07/2009
As part of its restructuring process, the loss-making Czech carrier ČSA will move all activities connected to the handling division of the company to its sister company, ČSA Support. The president of the airline, Miroslav Dvořák, told journalists on Monday that the goal of this step is to make spending in that branch more transparent and to increase overall efficiency. He added that he believes the airline’s business partners would also appreciate such a step, since it made the company’s business transactions easier to track.
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12/07/2009
A court in Plzeň on Monday sentenced four members of the Zádamský gang, a 12-member group active in the Czech Republic since 1999. The group blackmailed entrepreneurs in the Western part of the country, forcing them to pay protection money. Two of the members received one-year prison sentences for disorderly conduct, while the remaining two were released on parole. Earlier this year, seven of the Zádamský gang’s members were acquitted at a Plzeň court trial; the Supreme Court then overruled the regional court’s decision.
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12/07/2009
Passenger numbers increased at Prague’s Ruzyně airport in November – the first time numbers have risen this year. The number of passengers traveling through the airport in November grew by two percent compared to the figures of November 2008. The director of the airport told journalists they had noticed a gradual stabilization of the market, adding that a similar trend was expected this month. Prague airport has seen some 11 million passengers so far this year; last year a record 12.6 million travelers passed through Ruzyně.
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12/06/2009
It now appears unlikely that US President Barack Obama will meet his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev in Prague next week. There had been speculation the two leaders could sign a new treaty on nuclear disarmament in the Czech capital on Friday. However, a White House spokesperson said for that to happen the US would need to have a special team in Europe already, and this is not the case. Mr Obama is due to collect the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo next Thursday and will be in Europe again the following week for the conclusion of a UN climate summit in Copenhagen.
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12/06/2009
Saturday’s edition of the Czech newspaper Mladá fronta Dnes quoted a source as saying that if the US and Russian presidents do come to Prague, they could announce a joint bid in a tender for the completion of the Temelín nuclear power plant in south Bohemia and the building of other nuclear stations in the future. Both the American firm Westinghouse and Russia’s Atomstroy are reportedly interested in what would be one of the biggest such contracts in Europe.
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