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07/30/2009
Results for the first half of the year were also released by Ruzyně Airport, which reported a 13.5% year-on-year decline in passengers dispatched. The number of departures and arrivals also decreased by nearly 10%. According to the airport’s business director, the downward trends have been particularly noticeable among the low-cost carriers and charter airlines, which have seen passenger reductions of 16 and 20%, respectively.
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07/30/2009
Police have begun an investigation into the closure of the travel agency Tomi Tour, which declared bankruptcy in mid-July leaving some 3,400 clients temporarily stranded abroad. The Prague police department stated on Thursday that the investigation is responding to allegations that the company continued to take money from its clients and partners even after it was clear no more trips would be organised. Tomi Tour’s business director, former senator Václav Fischer, has said that no crime has been committed by anyone involved in the agency.
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07/30/2009
Slovak police have shot and killed a Czech man wanted for the 2002 robbery of a jewellery store. The spokesman for the Slovak Police Presidium, Martin Korch, said Thursday that officers had shot the man in the hand in self defence after six hours of negation when he drew a firearm on them. The shot however also struck him in the chest and attempts at resuscitation were unsuccessful. The man had previously been under arrest in the town of Havírov at the end of May when he disarmed the officers transferring him, handcuffed them to their car and escaped.
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07/30/2009
Twenty new cases of swine flu in the Czech Republic have been reported, bringing the number of infections to 95. All of the new cases involve individuals who have recently returned from abroad, and the majority of them have shown no complications and the patients have been confined to their homes with no need for antiviral medicaments.
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07/29/2009
The ministry of the interior is to introduce more police patrols in “risk” areas following an increase in far-right extremism in the Czech Republic. Interior Minister Martin Pecina made the announcement after talks with President Václav Klaus on Wednesday. Over the last year far-right groups have on a number of occasions marched on districts largely inhabited by Roma, and the Czech government itself said a rise in extremism was behind an increase in the number of Czech Roma applying for asylum in Canada. That led Ottawa to introduce a visa requirement for Czech visitors two weeks ago.
The interior ministry will also make a second attempt to have the far-right Workers’ Party banned; the last Czech government saw a similar bid rejected in March by the Supreme Administrative Court, which said it had put forward insufficient justification for the banning of the small group.
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07/29/2009
Social Democrats chairman Jiří Paroubek says the question of whether his party and the Communists could co-operate at government level is a closed chapter. Such co-operation is not possible, he said in a statement on Wednesday, adding that the matter could not be resolved so close to elections in October. Earlier on Wednesday, Communist leader Vojtěch Filip refused to say sorry for his party’s totalitarian past in an interview on Czech Television.
Some more liberal Communists have reportedly floated the idea that such an apology could pave the way for the Social Democrats to abandon a resolution ruling out working with the Communists at national level. The Communists made an apology soon after the Velvet Revolution; however, the other parties have kept them at arms length for the last 20 years and they have never been in government.
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07/29/2009
Josef Lesák, one of the leaders of the student resistance to the Communist takeover of 1948, has died at the age of 89. Lesák took part in the Prague Uprising against the Nazis in the last days of World War II in Europe, and became the youngest deputy in the Czechoslovak parliament a year later. On February 23, 1948 he led a march by students to Prague Castle to appeal to President Edvard Beneš not to give in to pressure and allow the Communist Party to take control of the country. When they did assume power, Josef Lesák was the first MP imprisoned. Last year he received a state honour for his contribution to the development of democracy and human rights.
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07/29/2009
The popular Czech singer Karel Gott is alleged to have written a letter in 1971to the then general secretary of the Communist Party Gustáv Husák, asking for clemency on his return to Czechoslovakia after he emigrated for a short period. The news website aktualne.cz published a letter in which Mr Gott appears to assure the Communist leader that though he had refused to return after a tour of West Germany, he had wished for the “normalisation” of social and cultural life in Czechoslovakia. Normalisation is usually used to refer to the restoration of conditions prior to the reform movement that culminated in the Soviet invasion of 1968. Karel Gott told aktualne.cz that he may have signed the letter, though in any case it would have made no sense for him to write to Husák.
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07/29/2009
One in 13 people in the Czech Republic now have diabetes, the Institute of Medical Information and Statistics said on Wednesday. Last year over three quarters of a million Czechs had the disease, with 20,000 more receiving treatment than in 2007. Over a quarter of the country’s diabetes patients suffer chronic complications, the Institute said.
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07/29/2009
Some Romanian Roma remain at a makeshift campsite by a lake on the outskirts of Prague, despite an agreement reached with local officials on Tuesday night for them to vacate the site. However, most of the 150 or so who were camped out there have moved on. The group began gathering in the Czech capital last Friday when a Roma teenager regarded as a “prince” was admitted to hospital after nearly drowning while swimming in a Czech lake. Officials at Vinohradská hospital said he remained in a serious condition.
Sociologists told the Czech News Agency that the Czech Republic did not offer suitable conditions for the nomadic lifestyle. Roma in this country have been settled since 1958, when the Communists barred them from travelling about.
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