Czech authorities are investigating the actions of the immigration police after customs officers detained 140 tourists at the Prague airport for several hours on suspicion of forged coronavirus tests, DPA reported.
Tourists traveling through Vaclav Havel Airport yesterday are suspected of falsifying their test certificates. Therefore, before they were allowed to enter the Czech Republic, they were forced to be examined once more.
Foreign Minister Jakub Kulhanek announced today an investigation into the case, which will determine whether there are any irregularities in the actions of the police.
The tourists, almost all of whom are Czech and mostly families with children, returned from a holiday in Tunisia on two planes.
According to tour operators, they were tested in Tunisia by a Czech doctor, according to Czech standards, before boarding the flight back home.
Immigration police said the precautionary measure was necessary because there were repeated cases of tourists arriving with fake test certificates.
However, this is the first case when not individual passengers, but all passengers on a flight have been forced to take a new test, notes DPA.
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