One person to go to court over egg attacks

The news site Tyden.cz reports that only person charged in the spate of egg-throwing attacks on Social Democrats prior to elections to the European Parliament last spring will be tried in court. Charges were originally brought against four individuals, aged 16 to 22, for public disorder, attacking a public figure and bodily restraint. Three of those cases however were re-qualified as misdemeanours. The “egg protests” were a feature of Social Democrat rallies around May of this year and came to a head at a rally in Prague city centre when politicians were pelted with hundreds of eggs and other objects; police at that event detained 16 people and the attacks were roundly condemned.