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Prague district council launches drive to clean up Karlovo náměstí
Prague 2 district council is waging war on what it calls an ‘extreme
situation’ on the capital’s Karlovo náměstí. Mayor Jana Černochová
has said that steps must be taken against the increasing number of drug
addicts, pickpockets and prostitutes found on the downtown Prague square.
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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.
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Magazine
It’s the thief’s turn to cook dinner! Why are so many tourists spending
hours in a certain public toilet. And, how many men in the Czech Republic
can say they are Vaclav Havel? Find out more in Magazine with Daniela
Lazarova.
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Four charged with racially motivated attempted murder over petrol bomb attack on Romany family’s home
In April this year many in the Czech Republic were horrified by a petrol
bomb attack on a Romany family’s home that left a two-year-old girl
fighting for her life. Now, four months later, police in north Moravia
have
made a major breakthrough in the case, charging four men with racially
motivated attempted murder. More
Court opens case of “miracle” doctor
A Prague court on Friday opened the case of Zbynek Veselsky – a doctor who
made a fine business out of curing cancer with costly injections. His
patients never had cancer and the injections he gave them were vitamin B.
The case has evoked public outrage and raised many questions relating to
medical ethics and the role of the Czech Doctors’ Chamber.
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Czechs hand in 6,300 unlicensed weapons in gun amnesty
The peaceable Czechs don’t seem like a nation of trigger-happy
gun-lovers, but there are actually 650,000 registered gun-owners in this
country, and perhaps as many as another half a million who own weapons
illegally - that’s a lot for a nation of 10 million people. Police say
that more than 6,000 unlicensed guns have so far been handed in in an
amnesty that comes to an end at midnight on Friday.
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Justice Minister qualifies warning of prison service “collapse” due to overcrowding
The Justice Minister Daniela Kovářová has qualified comments made
earlier this week on overcrowding in the country’s prisons. The comments
came at the end of a two-day inspection trip to penal facilities around the
Czech Republic, and were interpreted by the media as suggesting the Czech
prison system was close to collapse. This is not the case, says Mrs
Kovářová, although the situation is serious.
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Police clamp down on neo-Nazi protesters around the country
A rise in political extremism in the Czech Republic has been at the centre
of media attention in recent weeks, and the past weekend was no exception.
In the wake of the biggest ever police operation against the country’s
ultra-right groups, far-right radicals took to the streets in a number of
towns and cities to protest against the arrest of ten neo-Nazis.
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Several charged after police mount biggest operation against Czech neo-Nazis
Political extremism, especially on the far right, has been a big issue in
the Czech Republic over the last six months, with a strong perception that
it is on the rise. It may have been a coincidence, but on Tuesday the
subject was all over the news for a variety of reasons. Police arrested a
number of neo-Nazis and announced the setting up of new riot squads, while
many of the country’s political leaders signed a declaration condemning
extremism. More
Church takes cathedral claim to Constitutional Court
The Czech Catholic Church has filed a complaint with the country’s
Constitutional Court over a 2007 verdict by the Supreme Court according to
which the state is the rightful owner of Prague’s famous St. Vitus
Cathedral. The move is the latest round in a protracted legal battle
between the Church and state over the famous Prague landmark.
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