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03/15/2008
A 35-year-old Czech national who was arrested in London last December on suspicion of a series of rapes, faces between 15 years in prison to a life sentence in Great Britain, if found guilty. The news was released by Prague police spokesman Tomáš Hulan on Saturday. The Czech suspect has been charged with eight counts of rape. He was detained late last year as the result of successful cooperation between Prague police and their British counterparts. Czech police first investigated reports of two women who had returned to the Czech Republic from the UK and testified last autumn they had been repeatedly threatened with violence and raped by the suspect. Prague investigators, together with London’s Metropolitan Police, are continuing to gather evidence.
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03/15/2008
A new poll released by the STEM agency has revealed a drop in popularity for four out of five parties in Parliament, with the Communists the only party retaining steady numbers of 10.7 percent. According to the survey, all other parties, including the ruling Civic Democrats, would suffer a drop in votes. If an election were held today the opposition Social Democrats would come first with just over 30 percent of the ballot. The poll projects the ruling Civic Democrats would finish second at 24.2, followed by the Communists, then the Greens at 9.9 percent and the Christian Democrats at 5.3 percent. According to STEM, recent voter disillusionment has roots in last month’s presidential election, which divided parties backing different candidates.
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03/15/2008
The Czech Pharmacists’ Chamber has estimated that some 80 percent of around a million packs of medicine containing pseudoephedrine were abused for the production of the illegal drug pervitin, a methamphetamine, last year. The head of the chamber revealed the information on Friday. The amount of medicine abused is reportedly sufficient for up to one tonne of the illegal substance. The head of the National Anti-Drug Centre Jiří Komorous criticised the over-the-counter sale of medicines containing pseudoephedrine as “unacceptable”. Under current legislation pharmacies can refuse to sell anyone medicine if they suspect it might be used illegally.
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03/15/2008
Czech Post revealed on Friday that construction workers had accidentally uncovered 60 bags of mail lost between the years 2001 to 2006, forgotten in an unused rail tunnel in the south eastern town of Břeclav. The mail, sent from abroad, never made it to intended destinations. A spokesman for Czech Post described the case as “shocking”, adding police were now looking into the case.
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03/15/2008
Women’s tennis legends Steffi Graf and Martina Navrátilová relived some of their most famous past match-ups in an event called Dream Match 2008 in Tokyo - the first time the two had faced off in 14 years. The match (a one-setter with seven games) went to a tie-breaker, with Graf edging Navratilová 8-7. Afterwards the 51-year-old Navrátilová admitted she had always considered the German player one of her toughest opponents; she compared the experience of facing Graf again to “going back in time”.
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03/15/2008
Hockey forward Aleš Kotalík scored the final goal in a cannonade of goals by the Buffalo Sabres against the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday. Buffalo won 7-3. Kotalík scored with just three minutes left in the final period to cap Buffalo’s win.
In other action on Friday, goalie Tomáš Vokoun turned away 32 shots to help the Florida Panthers down the New York Ranger 3-2. Florida have now won their last six games.
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03/14/2008
A court has put Prague Castle and the adjacent St Vitus’ Cathedral under administration at the request of an Italian company which says the castle’s operators owe it around one million crowns (the equivalent of 62 thousand US dollars). The Castle Administration is appealing the ruling. The head of the president’s office Jiří Weigl told Czech Radio on Friday there was no threat of a forced sale of Castle property, saying the necessary funds were available to cover the debt but the Castle Administration is waiting to see if the Supreme Court upheld the latest ruling. The dispute goes back to 2001, when the firm GEMA Art took part in an exhibition on Renaissance and Baroque artists.
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03/14/2008
The prime minister has defended a statement made earlier this week about the United States allowing the torture of prisoners. His words were in response to an annual report on human rights released by the US State Department, criticising the Czech Republic for its treatment of the Roma minority as well as for corruption. In his statement the prime minister said that a country which “allowed the torture of prisoners could hardly preach on human rights breaches”. His words came just weeks after Mr Topolánek visited the US to negotiate visa-free relations, as well as the possible stationing of a US radar base on Czech soil. In Brussels on Friday the prime minister maintained he stood by his earlier statement, calling his reaction “adequate”.
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03/14/2008
A Prague court has ordered Robert Neff Novák to be held in custody after the 39-year-old admitted to the murder of his wife, the daughter of well-known Czech science fiction author Ondřej Neff. 28-year-old Irena Neffová disappeared in late February, a highly-publicised case in which her husband appealed to the public for any information before himself becoming the main suspect. After Mr Neff Novák fell under suspicion he eventually admitted to the crime, leading investigators to a site where he had buried his wife’s body. He now faces a sentence of fifteen years in prison. Ondřej Neff has said his daughter’s 20-month-old baby will be cared for by the Neff family.
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03/14/2008
Police have arrested four Danish nationals wanted for allegedly robbing a bank in the town of Aarhus in Denmark last December. Arrests were made in Prague on Thursday and Friday, a police spokesperson revealed. The four allegedly masked their identities and threatened to use automatic weapons in the hold-up, making off with 27 million Danish crowns - the equivalent of more than 200 thousand US dollars. Denmark is expected to ask for the group’s extradition.
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