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11/13/2007
A representative of the Vietnamese community will as of now attend as a guest the meetings of the Czech Government Minorities Council, Dzamila Stehlikova council chairwoman and minister for human rights and minorities, told journalists on Tuesday. She said that in this way the council could work more efficiently in helping to integrate the Vietnamese community into Czech society and to solve problems related to the community, such as illegal employment, people-smuggling and drug peddling. According to statistics 47,000 Vietnamese now live in the country legally.
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11/13/2007
The police are investigating a shooting incident on Wenceslas Square, which left one man seriously injured. Eyewitnesses say that two foreign nationals, most likely from Eastern Europe, were having a fight when one of them pulled out a gun and fired. The injured man, who is believed to be around 35 years of age, was operated on at the Teaching Hospital on Karlovo Namesti. He remains in critical condition.
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11/13/2007
Social Democrat leader Jiri Paroubek has confirmed that he and his partner Petra Kovacova will be married this Saturday at Hotel Esplanade in the spa town of Marianske Lazne. He said the wedding ceremony would be a private event to which only family and friends were invited. The opposition leader’s private life hit the headlines early this summer when it emerged that he and his wife of thirty years Zuzana Paroubkova were heading for divorce.
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11/13/2007
Sparta beat Bohemians 1905 3:1 in a Prague football derby on Monday night. The win sees Sparta move back up to second place in the Gambrinus Liga, four points behind their rivals Slavia. Martin Zeman, Pavel Horvath and Libor Dosek scored for Sparta, while Bohemians’ consolation goal was scored by Michal Ordos.
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11/12/2007
In an interview with the BBC broadcast on Monday, the Czech president, Vaclav Klaus, said that he expects there to be a US anti-missile radar base built in the Czech Republic. He said that he did not expect this to be in the very near future, due to all of the technical and legislative details which still had to be worked out, but added that he was in no doubt as to the radar base’s construction. In the interview, President Klaus also voiced his hope that NATO would become involved in the building of the base. The Czech lower house and Senate still have to approve the construction of any such base, plans for which have split the Czech Republic down the middle. The White House is expecting a final decision from the Czech Republic in 2008.
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11/12/2007
Six people have been charged following a clash between skinheads and anarchists in Prague city centre on Saturday evening. The clash happened at an illegal demonstration staged by right-wing extremists near Prague’s Jewish Quarter on the anniversary of Kristallnacht – a Nazi pogrom carried out in 1938. On Monday, Czech police revealed that five anarchists and one skinhead would face charges following Saturday’s unrest. According to police, amongst those charged is Petr Kalinovsky, a neo-Nazi who fired an air-pistol into the crowd. The anarchists in question have been charged with assaulting police-officers. One policeman was seriously injured at Saturday’s demonstration, and two further policemen suffered minor injuries. Almost 400 people were detained during Saturday’s unrest.
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11/12/2007
In related news, right-wing extremists are planning to hold a further demonstration in Prague this coming Saturday. They plan to hold their protest on Palackeho namesti, which is a space akin to London’s Hyde Park, on which protestors need no formal license or permission to gather.
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11/12/2007
On Monday, Jiri Cunek’s successor at the Ministry of Regional Development was named. The new minister for regional development is Christian Democrat Jiri Vackar. The post has been open since Mr Cunek’s resignation last Wednesday. On the same day, Mr Cunek resigned from his position as deputy prime minister as well. A replacement for this post is yet to be found.
Mr Cunek resigned under strong pressure from his partners in the government coalition to explain why he claimed social benefits while having 3.5 million CZK (175,000 USD) deposited in various bank accounts. He responds that he only ever claimed benefits that he was entitled to.
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11/12/2007
The snowy weather which the Czech Republic has been experiencing since Saturday has continued to cause disruption into the start of this week. Dozens of road accidents have been caused by the snow, and some rail links have been disrupted. Areas most affected by the snow include northern and eastern Bohemia, alongside Silesia and parts of Moravia. Between 5 and 15 centimetres of snow are predicted to fall over the course of Monday evening, and snowy conditions are expected to last at least until Thursday. The icy weather has put a halt to motorway repairs and forestry in parts of the Czech Republic, but delighted skiers, who are gearing up for a first weekend on the slopes.
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11/12/2007
Twenty new soldiers have been released from the Czech army after testing positive in a drugs test revealed the Defence Ministry on Monday. The twenty new conscripts were training to become soldiers at the Vyskov military base in Southern Moravia. The Defence Ministry has not divulged which drug the soldiers tested positive for. To combat drug-abuse in its ranks, the Czech army has introduced drug tests for its troops every three months, and the military police reserve the right to randomly test soldiers at any time they choose. Last year the military police investigated a total of six incidences of drug production and possession in the Czech army, and this year four soldiers have already been charged with such offences.
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