This is the second incident in Bělušice, North Bohemia, within 24 hours. About two-thirds of convicts took part in yesterday’s protests. Several police patrols came to the scene. The access road to the prison was closed.
“After the night intervention of our intervention unit, the situation in the prison is calm,” said Petra Kučerová, a spokeswoman for the Prison Service, on Sunday morning. According to her information, however, the intervention unit of the Bělušice prison remains on standby.
According to the spokesman, no one was injured during the prosecutions. The riots began in the Bělušice prison with security on Friday afternoon. According to the prison service directorate, they were reassured. “It happened without the need for intervention and the prison is currently calm,” a spokeswoman for the Prison Service said on Saturday morning, but the prisoners revolted again.
The incident is being handled by the Police of the Czech Republic. “In connection with the riots in the Bělušice prison, we have initiated criminal proceedings on suspicion of committing a crime, a riot of prisoners. The organizers are threatened for another 10 years behind bars. twitter account.
At present, according to Kučerová in Bělušice, the only patient is infected with coronavirus and is isolated from other prisoners. In Czech prisons, where strict preventive measures have been in place since the spring, there are a total of 19 positive people out of a total of about 19,000 convicts. The visit ban will apply again from 23 October.
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