For example, Brno officials and police officers go to the center to inspect restaurant gardens up to four times a day. So far, according to them, the closing time set for ten o’clock in the evening is observed in Brno.
“We recorded only one offense, when the restaurant was open after 10 pm, the staff of the company allegedly could not escort guests out of the establishment,” said the spokeswoman of the Brno city police, Markéta Skřivánková.
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For example, one of Prague’s bars did not close down at that time. The waiter closed the business and customers sat inside and drank at midnight. The operating bar did not know about it. “Unfortunately, they stayed there, even though they had been ordered by us on Monday to respect it fully and without exception,” he said.
According to the Minister of Health Jan Blatný (for YES) and the Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (YES), the police should be uncompromising precisely because of such cases. They call it mass irresponsibility.
“Once again, as a restaurant, we have been placed several times in a situation where we are described as the main source of where epidemiological numbers move today,” Václav Stárek, president of the Association of Hotels and Restaurants, commented on Monday on the 1990s. According to him, however, it is nowhere shown how many of the 35,000 restaurants that operate in the Czech Republic have violated the measure.
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Not wearing a veil as the most common offense
From Friday to Sunday, the police carried out 30,000 checks. The most common violation of the Ministry of Health regulations is not wearing a veil. Almost 750 people were fined for this. The government’s crisis measures are also being violated – 96 offenses have been detected and 80 fines have been imposed so far. But they were not just about restaurants and bars.
“It was also a violation of the maximum number of customers in fitness centers, zoos or at cultural events,” said police spokesman Ondřej Moravčík.
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Fine for Klaus and Prymula
In the meantime, the Prague Hygiene Station has already closed several media-known cases of violations of government regulations. According to information from Czech Television, Václav Klaus will receive a decision on a fine of three thousand crowns for not wearing a veil in the coming days. The ex-president was in public on November 17 without his mouth and nose covered.
The same sanction awaits former Minister of Health Roman Prymula and the head of ANO deputies Jaroslav Faltýnek. On October 21, they visited a closed restaurant in Vyšehrad, from which they then left without a veil. The Prague City Hall has not yet decided on a possible sanction for the owner of the company, who was not allowed to be open at the time – he is still waiting for his opinion. “So far, I only have some non-binding information, but when it comes, I will reflect on it,” Prymula said.
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In total, hygienists in the Czech Republic initiated more than 8,000 misdemeanor proceedings for breach of anti-epidemic measures from March to the end of November. The total amount of legally imposed fines is over 2.2 million crowns, the Ministry of Health said on Twitter.
