Police investigating whether Office of President shredded intelligence report on Vrbětice blasts

Police are investigating whether the Office of the President intentionally shredded an intelligence  report on the involvement of Russian secret agents in the 2014 explosions in an munitions depot in Vrbětice, Moravia, Czech Radio and Respekt.cz reported, citing three unnamed sources. According to them, detectives found that the document had been shredded when they wanted to analyse it for fingerprints and traces of DNA to ascertain who it had been handled by. The Office of the President reportedly told them that the document had been shredded in November of last year.

The 2014 explosions at the munitions depot killed two people and caused close to a billion crowns in damages, disrupting life in nearby villages. Czech intelligence traced the blasts to two agents from the Russian military intelligence service GRU who were in the close vicinity at the time. The Czech Republic expelled 18 Russian embassy staffers shortly after.