Filip Turek apologises to environmental group Hnutí Duha for offensive remarks

Motorists MP Filip Turek has apologised in writing to the environmental organisation Hnutí Duha for offensive remarks in which he linked the group to deaths during floods and called its members "parasites who needed to be eliminated". The honorary president of the Motorists party said on Facebook in April that “several people died in the 2022 floods because the activist Hnutí Duha had prevented the construction of a necessary dam.”

In the apology, Turek acknowledges that the statements were not based on fact and constituted an unjustified infringement of the organisation’s reputation.

The apology, which was ordered by the Prague Municipal Court in September, has been published on the organisation’s website.