Moroccans: "When it bursts, half of the Czech Republic will fall!"
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Dr. Damjan Prelovšek - art historian and expert on modern architecture, specialist on the work of architect Jože Plečnik, Ambassador of Slovenia to the Czech Republic 1998-2002, member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, writer and photographer.
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The recent attack on Slovak Prime Minister Fico and the events at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague inspire us to reflect on the crisis of today's society and the decline of morality. On Saturday, Czech television devoted one of its news bulletins to threats against Slovak politicians. It was not only there that the active and responsible approach of the Slovak police to warnings and threats was discussed. However, this is not just about Slovakia. In the Moroccogate affair, threats were also made in the Czech Republic. In March 2021, an employee of the Czech MFA telephoned the former consul in Morocco, J. Chaloupková, and told her that "she could be glad that she was still alive because she had touched somebody's business". She was to issue visas according to the instructions of Ambassador Viktor Lorenc, regardless of the regulations. Almost a year later, another person, also from the ministry's personnel section, said that the consul should be careful, that they could hire someone to look after her, and repeated the same thing again a few months later. Unlike the Slovak police, Colonel Jan Šulc of the NCOZ just smiled and referred them to the 158 telephone line.
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