Category: Local News

Update 3: Dozens of cops searched area around Hnevkovice, Vysocina Region over the summer, says local resident, looking for missing Prague couple Marie Drasnarova & Premysl Herzan; village’s base station was supposedly last to pick up one of their phone signals; Hnevkovice is only a few kilometres from D1 motorway rest area where couple was last seen alive (Blesk.cz) [Social Media Post]

Crime / Local News / Police / Social Media Posts

12 September, 2019

Update 3: Dozens of cops searched area around Hnevkovice, Vysocina Region over the summer, says local resident, looking for missing Prague couple Marie Drasnarova & Premysl Herzan; village’s base station was supposedly last to pick up one of their phone signals; Hnevkovice is only a few kilometres from D1 motorway rest area where couple was last seen alive (Blesk.cz) [Social Media Post]

External Link

Hradec Kralove branch of Tomio Okamura’s far-right SPD party complains on Facebook that “99%” of people on Hradec Kralove-to-Prague train are foreigners, alongside photos of two other passengers; post is deleted less than 24 hours later (iDNES.cz) [Social Media Post]

Czech Travel / Expats / Foreigners / Local News / Politics / Public Transport / Racism / Social Media Posts / Tomio Okamura / Trains

12 September, 2019

Hradec Kralove branch of Tomio Okamura’s far-right SPD party complains on Facebook that “99%” of people on Hradec Kralove-to-Prague train are foreigners, alongside photos of two other passengers; post is deleted less than 24 hours later (iDNES.cz) [Social Media Post]

External Link

Ostrava man gets four-year suspended prison sentence after posing online as clairvoyant “Edita” and conning 112 people out of more than 1.7 million crowns; 23-year-old David Kotlar also claimed nearly 300,000 crowns in benefits (Nova) [Social Media Post]

Crime / Internet / Law / Local News / Social Media Posts / Strange & Spooky

11 September, 2019

Ostrava man gets four-year suspended prison sentence after posing online as clairvoyant “Edita” and conning 112 people out of more than 1.7 million crowns; 23-year-old David Kotlar also claimed nearly 300,000 crowns in benefits (Nova) [Social Media Post]

External Link

Czech highways agency RSD launches its first “Western-style” motorway rest area, on the D55 near Kurovice, Zlin Region, inspired by Austria’s “rastplatz” network; facilities include playgrounds and phone-chargers (Aktualne.cz) [Social Media Post]

Czech Travel / Driving / Local News / Social Media Posts

10 September, 2019

Czech highways agency RSD launches its first “Western-style” motorway rest area, on the D55 near Kurovice, Zlin Region, inspired by Austria’s “rastplatz” network; facilities include playgrounds and phone-chargers (Aktualne.cz) [Social Media Post]

External Link

Four-year-old girl and 18-month-old boy whose mother sent them unaccompanied by taxi from Karvina, Moravian-Silesian Region, to Cadca, northern Slovakia, in June now living with Slovak foster family; mum said kids were going to see “grandma” but woman at Cadca address knew nothing about them (Novinky.cz) [Social Media Post]

Children / Czechs Abroad / Local News / Social Media Posts / Taxis / WTF

9 September, 2019

Four-year-old girl and 18-month-old boy whose mother sent them unaccompanied by taxi from Karvina, Moravian-Silesian Region, to Cadca, northern Slovakia, in June now living with Slovak foster family; mum said kids were going to see “grandma” but woman at Cadca address knew nothing about them (Novinky.cz) [Social Media Post]

External Link

Theatre director Jan Kacena fighting for his life after losing consciousness and falling into shaft while inhaling fumes from mineral springs in Marianske Lazne, Karlovy Vary Region; the chemicals in the fumes are said to bring on altered states of consciousness (Krimi-Plzen) [Social Media Post]

Accidents / Drugs / Film / Local News / Social Media Posts / Theatre

3 September, 2019

Theatre director Jan Kacena fighting for his life after losing consciousness and falling into shaft while inhaling fumes from mineral springs in Marianske Lazne, Karlovy Vary Region; the chemicals in the fumes are said to bring on altered states of consciousness (Krimi-Plzen) [Social Media Post]

External Link

Convicted murderer Petra Janakova, who mysteriously became pregnant while on remand in Hradec Kralove, gives birth to baby; Janakova, whose 30-year sentence has been postponed for a year, says she was raped by prison officers; investigation underway (iDNES.cz) [Social Media Post] *edited*

Children / Crime / Law / Local News / Social Media Posts

3 September, 2019

Convicted murderer Petra Janakova, who mysteriously became pregnant while on remand in Hradec Kralove, gives birth to baby; Janakova, whose 30-year sentence has been postponed for a year, says she was raped by prison officers; investigation underway (iDNES.cz) [Social Media Post] edited

External Link

Cool: “Brana do nitra zeme” (“Gateway to the Interior of the Earth”) project to open tourist walkway inside Komorni hurka (Kammerbuhl in German), a small volcano between Cheb and Frantiskovy Lazne, in the Karlovy Vary Region (Ceska televize) [Social Media Post]

Czech Tourism / Local News / Social Media Posts

2 September, 2019

Cool: “Brana do nitra zeme” (“Gateway to the Interior of the Earth”) project to open tourist walkway inside Komorni hurka (Kammerbuhl in German), a small volcano between Cheb and Frantiskovy Lazne, in the Karlovy Vary Region (Ceska televize) [Social Media Post]

External Link

Brain-dead pregnant woman kept alive on life support since May gives birth to healthy baby girl at Fakultni nemocnice Brno hospital (Blesk.cz) [Social Media Post]

Children / Health / Local News / Science / Social Media Posts

27 August, 2019

Brain-dead pregnant woman kept alive on life support since May gives birth to healthy baby girl at Fakultni nemocnice Brno hospital (Blesk.cz) [Social Media Post]

External Link

Torrential rain in the Zlin area yesterday (Monday) evening floods cellars, roads and shops; storm warnings in effect nationwide for the rest of the day today (Novinky.cz) *edited* [Social Media Post]

Local News / Social Media Posts / Weather

27 August, 2019

Torrential rain in the Zlin area yesterday (Monday) evening floods cellars, roads and shops; storm warnings in effect nationwide for the rest of the day today (Novinky.cz) edited [Social Media Post]

External Link