Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sat, 25 Jul 2026 06:55:08 +0200https://english.radio.cz/pribyl-case-reveals-loopholes-security-screening-8089958© 2026 Radio Prague International The row around the appointment of Pavel Pribyl as head of the government's office is now over. Mr Pribyl's problems became untenable when it emerged that he had commanded a riot police unit which beat up anti communist demonstrators in the streets of Prague in 1989. Pribyl resigned last Friday and will most likely be replaced by a man whose past could hardly be more different - former dissident Ales Sulc. Pribyl is gone -but a lot of questions remain unanswered. How is it possible for a man with such a history to have gone undetected for so long and to hold such an important post? And how many others are there like him? Daniela Lazarova has been trying to find out some of the answers. Daniela, is the Pribyl case an isolated one? encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/4f5197446b1f6808606b2a0aab5e5a67.png?timestamp=1583150525 https://english.radio.cz/pribyl-case-reveals-loopholes-security-screening-8089958 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9