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Fees not to bring better health care - Czech shadow minister ... damages and public apology. Macek, a dentist by profession and a former external adviser to President Vaclav Klaus, slapped Rath from behind during the national conference of the Dentists' Chamber and then there was a brief scuffle between both men. Macek, who then apologised to the dentists for disturbing their meeting, explained he had thereby repaid Rath's public insult of his wife.
Rath indicated in the press that Macek had married her for money. Macek has separated from his wife in the meantime. According to Rath, Macek had caused "a publicly watched physical brawl." Rath wanted Macek to publish the following text: "I regret my having encroached upon Mr Rath's rights to the protection of honor, dignity and respect by my indecent behaviour." The police and general prosecutor assessed Macek's attack as breach of the peace and passed the case to the Prague 2 authority that fined him 3000 crowns in 2006.
(Ceske Noviny)
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