One on One Sculptor Pavel Opočenský: “I was the least angry prisoner”.
Sculptor Pavel Opočenský has seen many twists and turns in his life. After signing Charter 77, he left for Germany to eventually settle in New York. When he came back after the fall of communism in 1990, he got involved in an incident in which he killed a skinhead in self defence. The trial took four and a half years before he was cleared of criminal charges. In the meantime, Pavel Opočenský became a respected sculptor – but in 2003, he was sentenced to three years in jail for sex with minors.
Karel and Josef Čapek's monument on Náměstí míru in Prague, photo: Kristýna Maková
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