Dozens of cases of humanitarian benefit fraud are being investigated in Plzeň: according to the state prosecutor's office, 63 criminal cases had been opened as of September. In 28 cases the police have already charged suspects with fraud, a
The regional prosecutor’s office in České Budějovice filed an indictment on 18 September against a police officer who brutally attacked a surrendering youth in May. The case has gone to the district court in České Budějovice; according to p
American Christa Pike, who survived two doses of the lethal drug pentobarbital a week ago, has come out of a coma. According to her lawyer, she woke up on Tuesday and speaks “to a limited extent,” while being “upset and confused.” Pike’s co
Police in Olomouc have charged three foreigners with defrauding victims of CZK 11.5 million through fake online shops. According to investigators, the suspects operated from June 2023 to March last year, and none of them had a prior convict
The European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) has charged four participants in a large-scale tax fraud in which Czech companies were involved. The damage in the case amounts to almost five billion crowns, and according to EPPO it is one of
Prague police are looking for a witness in a case of harassment on a commuter train, police spokesman Jan Rybanský said on Wednesday. According to him, from January to June an unknown man repeatedly pestered an underage passenger on the S9
In early July last year, on the bike path between the village of Březí and the town of Mikulov in South Moravia, a man driving a motorhome fired a gas pistol into the face of a cyclist who had blocked his way. The Břeclav District Court had
In the Plzeň district of Slovany, a 29-year-old man with a severe drug addiction attacked his father and brother with knives: his brother died at the scene from blood loss, while his father suffered serious injuries but survived. The court
A young Czech police officer named Petr, originally from Chropyně near Kroměříž, died tragically in Prague: according to those close to him, he shot himself with his personal Glock pistol in his service flat in Letná on 4 February. The poli
In the Czech town of Šumperk, a driver lost control of his Škoda Octavia after being blinded by bright sunlight and crashed into a Škoda Kamiq driving ahead of him — the crash injured the Kamiq's driver and her passenger, who were taken to
In South Moravia, in the Blansko district, police are investigating a fight between children that took place outside the walls of a local school. One of those involved, a girl, was injured, and paramedics took her to hospital for examinatio
Near the main railway station in Brno, two men, aged 32 and 33, repeatedly shouted the Nazi slogan “Sieg Heil” and raised their arms in the Nazi salute. The incident was reported by the city police.A municipal police patrol was driving past