Turf wars between mafia gangs becoming serious problem in Prague

Turf wars between Caucasian, Armenian and Chechnyan mafia gangs are becoming a serious problem in Prague – this according to Jan Šubert a spokesman for the Czech Security Service BIS which deals with the problem of organized crime in the Czech Republic. The comments came after an incident in the centre of Prague on Saturday in which two Russian-speaking men were apparently gunned down by members of a rival gang. This incident follows in the wake of a series of similar tit-for-tat attacks last November in which a Russian-speaking businessman was stabbed to death in Prague’s Wenceslas square.