Senator’s assistant attacked, suffers serious concussion, broken eye socket

The Czech news site Novinky.cz has reported that an assistant to a Social Democrat senator was attacked at a discotheque in Špindlerův Mlýn, north Bohemia, on Friday night. 25-year-old Michal Červ, who works for Senator Vladimír Dryml, suffered a serious concussion and a break to his eye socket, after he was hit in the head by an assailant wielding a telescopic baton. The attacker himself ended up in hospital after being jumped by others in the bar. Senator Dryml has said that as far as he knew his assistant had been sitting quietly at the bar and had provoked no one; he also suggested the attack could have been politically-motivated. He has made clear he wants to ask Interior Minister Martin Pecina to ensure that the case is fully investigated; police are already looking into the incident.