COMMENT: Prague is acting in a DPP case against the principles of the rule of law
What Prague’s top officials, led by Councilor Adam Schienherr and Jan Čižinský, chairman of the movement, are showing in connection with the biggest corruption case in the history of Prague concerning the Transport Company of the Capital City of Prague (DPP) – the Dosimetr case, is a plethora of procedures and actions with the rule of law.
Councilor Adam Scheinherr, as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of DPP, recently became suspicious that property crime could be committed in DPP Prague. At the moment, he is boasting that he has filed a criminal complaint in this regard and cooperated with the police, and that he could not do more. However, this does not exhaust his duties as chairman of the supervisory board, which is required by law in such a situation. Exactly opposite.
Under the Civil Code, there is a general preventive obligation to protect and avert damage. A criminal report is the last resort that does not evolve you out of the first duty. His primary duty was therefore to report the damage, and thus to proceed in accordance with the Civil Code. If he just filed a notice, to which I only add that we still do not know who and for what, but otherwise with folded arms for two years waiting for the result of police work, knowingly or unconsciously watching the crime, from which suspects are now linked to organized criminal members. , which includes a member of this Supervisory Board and at the same time Deputy Mayor Petr Hlubuček.
Since 2019, Dr. Hana Marvanová has been drawing attention to all suspicious DPP transactions (suspicious contracts, including those without tenders and the planned sale of land at metro stations behind the city and below cost), Mr. Schienherr and other members of the Supervisory Board did nothing about it and all she rejected the personnel changes that Dr. Marvan was pushing for. In doing so, he acted in violation of the Civil Code. He watched the police work and did nothing to avert the damage – a clear breach of legal duty.
It is also against the law that Prague is now using escapes from the police file to lead a political struggle. Their dissemination on social networks, as the President of Prague Sobě Čižinský, for example, does, is at least a misdemeanor and, depending on the circumstances, could also be a criminal offense.
The Behavior of Top Representatives of Prague in Connection with the Dosimeter Case Takes Us to the Level of the Banana Republic, where the boundaries between politics and law are blurred and politics is resolved before the courts. I am sorry that it was Prague itself, led by Jan Čižinský, in this way to the decline of political and legal culture in our country.