Czech Defence Minister Alexandr Vondra has suspended Vladimir Lozek over the action in the building of the Czech Television (CT) public broadcaster on Friday evening, ministry spokesman Jan Pejsek told CTK today. He said Vondra considers the action out of proportion to the situation. All three will be suspended pending the investigation.
About ten armed and masked military police stormed the CT news service building in Prague on Friday evening. Based on a court order they were looking for a Military Intelligence (VZ) file that editor Karel Rozanek had previously.
The file is connected with the case of former VZ head Miroslav Krejcik. The military police were searching for almost five hours one of the CT rooms from which they took sacks with equipment and documents of three editors before midnight.