Liberec police chief sacked for attending illegal party

The president of the Czech police, Jan Švejdar, has dismissed the head of the force in the Liberec Region over his attendance at a party in a hotel on Saturday that flouted Covid-19 restrictions. The national police chief said Vladislav Husák would finish in the post at the end month.

On Monday Prime Minister Andrej Babiš described the event at a hotel in Teplice as an example of arrogant fat-cat behaviour.

Also present were Milan Hnilička, the government’s special commissioner for sport, former prime minister Jiří Paroubek, ex-MP Jiří Šlégr and ex-MP Petr Benda, who owns the venue.