The man demands the return of the statue of Konev to the place, the court of his rejection
/ PHOTOGALLERY / The Constitutional Court rejected the complaint of a man who did not agree with the removal of the statue of the Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev from the Interbrigade Square in Prague and demanded the return of the monument to its original place. The Municipal Court in Prague considered his action inadmissible, and failed in the Supreme Administrative Court. The constitutional judges described the complaint as manifestly unfounded, ČTK found out from the resolution in the court database.
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In 2020, Prague 6 had the statue of Soviet Marshal Konev removed from Interbrigade Square.
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The man demands “obstructive access” to the memorial. However, the court found no interference with his fundamental rights. “There is no such constitutionally guaranteed fundamental right and the complainant does not in fact even claim it when he refers to a bilateral international treaty or the law on war graves and places of worship, but no specific rights of the complainant follow directly from this legislation,” resolution.
The lawsuit was directed against the alleged illegal intervention of the Prague 6 City District Office. The owner of the statue is the capital city of Prague. The city district has it entrusted to the administration.
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In a constitutional complaint, the man made a number of arguments as to why the statue should not have been removed at all. If someone ever damaged it with paint, the city district should have taken better care of it, not removed it. He also pointed to an alleged breach of the agreement between the Czech Republic and Russia on friendly relations and cooperation.
According to the resolution, the constitutional complaint serves to protect against the intervention of a public authority in constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights and freedoms. The intervention to be personal, current and without such the removal of the statue did not occur. “It is not the task of the Constitutional Court to review the activity or inactivity of public authorities at a general level, let alone to comment on it only at a general or even political level,” the judges wrote.
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He decided to remove the statue from the liberation of Prague, the leadership of Prague 6 left the square in Bubeneč the year before last. Against were the Russian embassy, communists or various pro-Russian associations and activists. City Hall has announced that the statue will become part of the 20th Century Museum in the future.
At the end of the Second World War, Marshal Ivan Stěpanovič Koněv (1897 to 1973) threatened the liberation of Prague, parts of Poland, Silesia and Saxony. He also led the bloody suppression of the uprising in Hungary in 1956 and worked in Berlin during the construction of the Berlin Wall.
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