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Police action against CzechTek unrightful - human rights
PRAGUE- The police action against participants in the CzechTek technoparty in Mlynec, west Bohemia, at the weekend was not rightful, government human rights commissioner Svatopluk Karasek (Freedom Union, US-DEU) said.
He said that a number of problems connected with the technoparty were caused exactly by the police steps.
Karasek, however, refused to call on Interior Minister Frantisek Bublan to resign for this reason.
The senior opposition Civic Democrats (ODS) today called on Bublan (unaffiliated, nominated by Social Democrats, CSSD) to resign, but he said he was not considering it.
Karasek says that police now claim that they intervened only when CzechTek participants violated the law and legal complaints were filed against the party organisers.
Karasek claims that police could have acted differently. They could have avoided the chaos resulting in people walking to the spot through surrounding forests if they had regulated the traffic, or the participants' arrival in CzechTek in a better way.
Karasek pointed out that police had been strictly against CzechTek since the very beginning.
"They blocked the access road, they objected to the contract [of lease of the plot for CzechTek]. I do not understand why they did not find the contract all right, I am holding it in my hands,"said Karasek.
Karasek said that, in his opinion, policemen wanted to prevent the event since the very beginning.
He said that the government's human rights council would deal with the CzechTek case in the weeks to come. He, however, said he would not join the ODS call for Bublan's resignation.
Bublan blames the CzechTek organisers for the conflict between policemen and techno fans, as they did not communicate with police. He recalls that the organisers kept the party venue secret, and thereby stirred up police fears.
Deputy police president Vladislav Husak said that police had been astonished by the participants' brutality.
Dozens of people, both among techno fans and policemen, were injured during the weekend's police action against CzechTek on a meadow in Mlynec.
The ODS has accused PM Jiri Paroubek (CSSD), saying that policemen acted upon a political order, but Paroubek denies it.
The ODS wants to convoke a meeting of the Chamber of Deputies defence committee to debate the police action against CzechTek.
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