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Prague police are investigating whether a crime was committed when they installed a toilet on a pedestal where a monument to Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev previously stood.
In Prague, on the night of May 9, at the site of the monument to Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev dismantled in April, unidentified people installed a porcelain toilet. This was reported by České noviny.
The plumbing fixture was placed on a pedestal. Remaining of the monument to Konev.
The initiator of the dismantling of the monument, the head of the administration of the Prague-6 district, Ondřej Kolář, said that anyone who tries to express himself in this way during the celebrations of the end of World War II has “feces on his head, and not another thing”.
According to Kolarge, the health service was withdrawn by public services.
Local police spokesman Jan Danek said law enforcement officers are studying this issue, noting that they have not yet determined what the crime may be.
April 3 in Prague dismantledKonyev’s ayatnik. Czech authorities said they planned to put a monument, previously covered in paint, in the Museum of the 20th Century.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu wrote a letter to the Czech authorities, demanding the transfer of the monument to Russia. The RF Investigation Committee instituted a criminal case on the demolition of the monument under Part 3 of art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (desecration of symbols of Russian military glory, committed publicly). The Czech Foreign Ministry described the actions of the Investigation Committee as interference in internal affairs.
On April 26, Respekt published an investigation alleging that an employee of one of the Russian special services with a diplomatic passport arrived in Prague, who may have had castor poison to poison several Czech politicians, including Kolarge and the mayor of the Czech capital. , Zdenek Grzyba. After that, they were taken under guard. The Russian embassy in Prague called the publication speculation and asked for a “proper evaluation”.
During World War II, Prague, at that time the capital of Czechoslovakia, was liberated as a result of the Prague offensive operation from May 6 to 11, 1945. Konev was one of the commanders of the group of Soviet forces. However, in the Czech Republic Konev is treated negatively due to his involvement in the repression of the Prague Spring in August 1968. In 2018, the Czech Republic recognized these events as invasion and occupation.
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