Prague: Czech police have escorted international refugees to the bass
At the end of the year, politics escorted two refugees to the Czech Republic who avoided imprisonment in Latin America. David Schön, a spokesman for the police presidium, informed about it on the police website. According to him, one was detained in Colombia and the other in Panama. After landing in Prague, the police transferred them to prison.
According to Schön, one of the refugees fled to justice for almost 17 years. Many police officers and other partners from various security forces at home and abroad are likely to track him down. The spokesman did not specify what criminal activity the man was convicted of.
He only pointed out that the Prague criminal investigators who took him from the airport to the nearest prison made an imaginary end to one of their longest cases. In addition to the refugee, the police also had to guard a man who threatened to fly under the influence of alcohol on the flight from Panama to the Netherlands. He was then handed over to the local police in Amsterdam.
The second refugee avoided trial for years and subsequently sentenced to imprisonment for violent crime. He was detained in November in Colombia and subsequently deported to the Czech Republic. After landing, the police from the foreign police transferred him to one of Prague’s prisons, where, according to Schön, he began serving a prison sentence of 5.5 years.
This year, despite the complications caused by the coronavirus epidemic, according to the spokesman, almost a thousand people detained international police cooperation for the needs of the Czech judiciary or foreign partners. The vast majority were on the basis of a European arrest warrant, in several dozen cases it was a detention on the basis of an international arrest warrant, the spokesman concluded.