Prague wants to teach refugee children in a former Russian school
The Prague leadership will call on the government to prepare a law according to which it will be possible to limit Russia’s ownership of the former school building on Krupka Square in Bubeneč. This is what Prague representatives are talking about today.
According to the deputies, the building should be entrusted to the capital and a school for the children of Ukrainian refugees was established there. Based on the resolution of the council, he will prepare the Prague councilor. After the diplomatic rift between the Czech Republic and Russia, the school is not being used due to the Vrbětice case. The intention to use the school has already been approved by Prague 6, on whose territory it is located.
The opposition deputy and deputy mayor of Prague 6, Jakub Stárek (ODS), who submitted the proposal to the deputies, said that the building was not covered by diplomatic protection. “It would be very bad to leave the school empty and not use it,” he said.
According to Stárek and the mayor of Prague 6 and MP Ondřej Kolář (TOP 09), the state should put the building in the property of the capital, which would entrust it to the administration of Prague 6. The school for Ukrainian children would then be there for at least the declared state of emergency.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned last week that active steps against property in the Czech Republic were undoubtedly followed by reciprocal actions against Czech property in Russia. At the meeting of deputies today, Kolář said that the town hall had a legal proposal for further action prepared. He did not communicate specific steps.
Teachers who worked at the Russian school had to leave the country after a diplomatic rift between the Czech Republic and Russia, which was the result of findings by Czech secret services and investigators that Russian secret service agents were involved in explosions at ammunition depots in Vrbětice in Zlín.