Posted in In The News, Law, tagged Australia on May 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Daughter of New Zealander Rodney William Cowie and his Czech wife will return home from Australia where she arrived with her father after he had kidnapped her from the Czech Republic, iHNED.cz news server writes.
Australian court found in favor of the mother, Czech embassy in Australia announced.
Both the mother and her daughter shall arrive in Prague [...]
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Josef Fritzl had held his daughter locked up in a basement for 24 years. And he is the father of her six surviving children, as one baby boy died shortly after birth. Fritzel admitted the charges yesterday.
Common sense interpretation? Abuse, rape, incest … multiple occurrences of all of the aforementioned crimes. — Life sentence.
Oh, wait. [...]
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Posted in In The News on March 9, 2008 | No Comments »
A man who was most definitely intoxicated died on the premises of the Lany Castle which is a temporary residence of Czech presidents. President Vaclav Klaus was present at the castle at the time of the incident.
A local man tried to get into the gardens but he was stopped by the military police at two [...]
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Posted in In The News on February 17, 2008 | No Comments »
British Airways flight en route from UAE to London had to be escorted by Czech fighter planes on Sunday when the air traffic control lost communication with the aircraft, iDNES.cz news server wrote.
The tricky thing is that communication was lost near the Slovak-Czech border and the first fighter-to-plane contact was established 10 minutes later, on the [...]
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Posted in In The News, Law, tagged Schengen, USA, visa on February 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is the most unique immigration-related issue I have ever heard of.
Two Americans face deportation after being caught by the Immigation Police, iDNES.cz news server writes.
They had stayed longer than their visa had allowed them to. When caught, the two men suggested that they would not leave the country as ordered, so they were put [...]
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Posted in In The News on January 30, 2008 | No Comments »
An American citizen was stabbed to death by an off-duty cop in Prague last night. According to Denik.cz news server the victim was a soldier stationed in Germany.
More to come…
UPDATE: The cop was drunk. The police are now investigating “who started it”. Later a minor investigation proved that the man was NOT a soldier. He [...]
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Posted in In The News, Law, tagged murder, police on December 27, 2007 | No Comments »
A few weeks ago a driver working for the CEO of the Sazka state-run lottery company was killed as he was getting out of the company Bentley in Prague. The police now caught the killer and they found out the Russian hitman picked a wrong person to kill. Coincidentally the real target lived nearby and [...]
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Posted in In The News, Law on December 6, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Czech employee of Group4 Securitas agency Frantisek Prochazka who stole 562 million crowns is the third most wanted man in the world, TV Nova evening news broadcast reported tonight. The reward money is two million euros. More money is offered for Osama bin Laden and some Colombian drug lord whose name I did not catch.
Prochazka [...]
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Posted in In The News, Law on December 6, 2007 | No Comments »
A few weeks ago Emerson Fittipaldi visited the Czech Republic.
He was a VIP passenger on the Pendolino high-speed train.
He sat “behind the wheel” for a few minutes. As did Czech racer Tomas Enge.
Now, the Railroad Safety Board has ruled that the Czech Rail company broke the law by allowing a person who is not properly [...]
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A British teacher was fired over a beer bash he took part in with his students in Prague. A group of 16- to 17-year old young people had a party and the educator “watched over them”.
We expect higher standards of behavior from our students and employees, the principal of the Dorset school, Stuart Clark, was [...]
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