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03/29/2008
An unarmed Czech police officer killed two men who attacked him in Liberia, Mladá fronta Dnes reported. A week ago the elite police officer, who is serving in a United Nations peace mission in the East African state, stopped his car to help a man who appeared to be in distress. He was then set upon by a group of men wielding machetes. He killed two of them in self-defence before making his escape, a police spokesperson told the newspaper. The Czech policeman, a martial arts expert, suffered cuts during the attack. Five Czech police officers are taking part in a UN mission aimed at increasing stability in Liberia.
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03/29/2008
Between two and three hundred people took part in a demonstration against abortion on Prague’s Old Town Square on Saturday. The protest was linked to the March 25 Day of the Unborn Child and came days after the second biggest party in the governing coalition the Christian Democrats expressed disagreement with an amendment proposed by the Health Ministry, which they say would make abortion policy more liberal. The number of pregnancies terminated in the Czech Republic has fallen significantly; while almost 150,000 abortions were carried out in 1970, last year that figure was down to 25,000.
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03/29/2008
Around 150 far-right extremists gathered at a memorial to German soldiers who died in World War II in Jihlava on Saturday. A flyer for the gathering said the Germans had been victims in the war and denied the Holocaust. One of the neo-Nazis who spoke at the gathering was taken in for questioning by police in the Moravian town.
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03/29/2008
A stamp collection belonging to the missing father of one of the Czech Republic’s most wanted men has been sold at auction for CZK 13.65 million (over USD 850,000). The collection was assembled by Lambert Krejčíř, who is presumed dead after being kidnapped in 2002. His son Radovan Krejčíř is wanted on charges of conspiracy to murder and fraud. The Czech authorities failed to have him extradited from South Africa earlier this year.
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03/29/2008
The Czech football coach Karel Bruckner will be out of action for at least five weeks after undergoing a successful operation on his upper spine. Bruckner, who is 68, will remain in hospital for almost two weeks before a period of recuperation at home. Last week he revealed plans to step down as national team manager after the European Championship this summer. The Czechs will take part in the opening game at Euro 2008 when they take on Switzerland, which is hosting the tournament with Austria.
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03/28/2008
Czech police say they have begun investigating the posting of a controversial anti-Islamic film on a Czech website. The 15-minute film by ultra right-wing Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders was posted on a Czech website by the extreme right National Party. The film, launched on Thursday, has stirred substantial controversy leading to protests in the Netherlands and elsewhere. Czech police are investigating to see whether the posting of the incendiary material on a Czech website is in keeping with the law. The extremist National Party is not a member of the country's Parliament; the posting of the Dutch film by its members is being seen largely as a publicity stunt.
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03/28/2008
On Thursday the prime minister said that it will be up to his cabinet to decide whether or not he will attend this summer’s Olympic Games hosted by Beijing. Mirek Topolánek made clear the final decision would be taken after analysis of China's crackdown in Tibet, which has spurred calls for an Olympic boycott. The prime minister is next in line to represent the Czech Republic at the games after President Klaus made clear he would not be attending as the result of planned surgery. The prime minister said in a statement that he fully stood by the government’s declaration expressing deep unease over the situation in Tibet and calling for the repression to stop.
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03/28/2008
Traffic police have released the latest information on an unprecedented pileup on the Czech Republic’s D1 highway last week. Police official Petr Prokeš revealed on Friday that the investigation has so far determined 85 accidents took place on the D1 last Thursday involving 189 vehicles. 30 people were injured, six of them seriously. The pileup left thousands on the motorway stranded for hours. Drivers who failed to heed speed limits and worsening road conditions prior to the pileup could now be fined up to 5,000 crowns. Instigators in more serious incidents - such a truck’s crashing into a bus, injuring three - are likely to end up in court.
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03/28/2008
The leader of the Christian Democratic Party Jiří Čunek has met with the US Ambassador to Prague Richard Graber to discuss the US State Department’s annual report on human rights. The report for 2007 recently named Mr Čunek in connection with the questionable treatment of ethnic Roma when he was the mayor of the town of Vsetín and also mentioned a well-publicised corruption case levelled against the politician last year. Earlier, Mr Čunek received a written reply from the ambassador stating that the annual report was compiled from various sources and would be updated in a year’s time. After their meeting, Mr Čunek told reporters he now considered the issue “resolved”.
Along with the report, the US visa-waiver programme and missile defense were also discussed in the meeting on Friday.
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03/28/2008
Municipalities situated near existing NATO radars in Chlumec nad Cidlinou and Slavkov, south Moravia, will ask the government for financial compensation as well as information about the radars' possible impact on the public's health. The mayor of Chlumec nad Cidlinou announced the initiative on Friday but said that 14 municipalities in the vicinity of Chlumec and ten municipalities in the area of Slavkov had not yet agreed on specific financial demands. The construction of the NATO radar near Chlumec began in 2004, with the radar going into operation in 2007. The radar at Slavkov was completed at the end of 2007.
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