Topolanek said the Czech-Croatian negotiations were accelerated by the case of two Czech female tourists who were reportedly beaten up by Croatian police in September. He said it is good to have a Czech policeman at the Adriatic coast in similar cases. Topolanek said only a few Czech police would operate in Croatia.
"It will be only a few individuals who will provide communication," he said. He said Croatia has already cooperated in this way with Austria, Czech govt agrees to annul pension agreement with Russia ...
Czech official warns about U.S.-reduced base finance ... France and Hungary. Sanader said the interior ministers of the two countries will define the exact number of Czech police. The Czech lower house's foreign committee voiced dissatisfaction in January with the way Croatia had investigated the case of two Czech female tourists. Croatia had not sufficiently apologised for the police intervention nor had it punished the officers involved, the committee stated. The Croatian police stopped the two Czechs' car for alleged speeding. The police asked them to get out of the car and then intervened against them inappropriately, Czech Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zuzana Opletalova said previously. The tourists said the police had handcuffed them, pushed them to the ground and beat them with the aim to take their mobile phones away from them. Other witnesses, however, say it was the Czechs who provoked the incident. About one-million Czech tourists visited Croatia in 2006.
(Ceske Noviny)
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