Hundreds of people in Prague demanded the resignation of the government. They threw paint at the organizer of the demonstration
According to Prague police spokesman Jan Rybanský, there were several hundred participants, Vrabel spoke of thousands of people. On the way through Prague, Vrabel and other participants of the march were splashed with yellow and blue paint by a pair of young people.
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Tens of thousands of people came to earlier demonstrations called by Vrábel. The organizers expected a large number of participants even today, in addition to the stage near the statue of St. Wenceslas, they had a large-screen screen and a large sound system in the upper part of the square. Other people came during the speeches.
People are calling for the government to resign
The people who originally filled the middle half of Wenceslas Square today had almost every Czech flag or at least a tricolor or a cap in the colors of the flag. But a red flag with a hammer and sickle also flew over the heads of the demonstrators, and several people came from the headquarters of the Communist Party with KSČM flags. Together with the speakers, they are calling for the government to resign and chanting, they want peace.
Former Prime Minister Jiří Paroubek and MEP and Chairwoman of the Communist Party of the Czech Republic Kateřina Konečná were one of the first speakers today to criticize the government of Petr Fiala (ODS). They accused the government of supporting Ukraine at the expense of Czech citizens, whom it owes. According to Paroubek, the country wants to drag the government into war, the Final government called “purple abomination”. Neither Paroubek nor Konečná called on the demonstrators to support either of the candidates in the presidential election, but they said that they should not vote for Pavel.
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Other speakers included, for example, Josef Skála (KSČM) or the chairman of the Workers’ Party of Social Justice Tomáš Vandas. After the speeches, the participants of the event went on a march, the route of which led along the main road to Žitná street, then Myslíková and along the embankment across Mánesův bridge past Malostranská to Straková akademie. There again, Vrabel, among other things, criticized the barriers placed in front of the office, which, according to him, were undignified considering the reverent nature of the event. Finally, after 16:30, they ended the demonstrations.
They poured paint over the sparrow
The event was supervised by a large number of police officers, in Myslíková Street, the heavy-duty police also joined. Along the way, two young people splashed blue and yellow paint on Vrabel and the people around him. During the march, participants chanted slogans such as “Shame on the government!”, “Violet behind bars!”, “We’ve had enough!” and briefly “To the Czechs to the Czechs!”.
Last September in October, Vrabel managed to gather tens of thousands of people on Wenceslas Square, who, just like today, demand the resignation of the five-coalition cabinet and a reversal of the country’s political direction. The organizer himself has debt problems. At the beginning of January, the regional court in České Budějovice annulled his debt relief and declared bankruptcy on his property, stating that Vrabel is not doing his best to satisfy creditors in his insolvency proceedings. Vrabel said he sees the trial as a political process.