Seventeen years ago, the police dispersed the techies: Paroubek ended up paying for CzechTek
Police and riot police intervention at CzechTek in 2005. Intervention If there are any days that Jiří Paroubek would like to forget, it would probably be on 29-30 July. In 2005, as then prime minister, he instructed Interior Minister František Bublan to disperse the legendary technoparty called CzechTek. More than a thousand police officers raided the legal festival, and the crackdown has gone down in modern history as one of the bloodiest and still arouses passions. Among other reasons, according to the iDnes portal, the police action was valued at more than CZK 30 million.
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