Current Affairs Mayor of Chomutov takes fresh action against town’s debtors
The town of Chomutov in north Bohemia is up in arms. Its controversial mayor Ivana Řápková has declared war on the town’s 4,000 or so debtors, most of them members of the Romany minority. After a court banned the town hall from seizing their social benefits to make up for unpaid rents, the mayor took a new tack – ordering a wide-scale confiscation of debtors’ property for unpaid fines.
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