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The thief stole marble slabs from the former Koněva memorial

Police spokeswoman Lucie Drábková told Novinky on Tuesday that her colleagues were investigating the case as a theft. They will examine witnesses and perform other acts.

The City Hall of Prague 6 filed a criminal complaint, thus responding to the contributions of people in a closed group on Facebook concerning Dejvice.

The statue of the military leader who took part in the liberation of Prague from the Nazis, but also in the bloody suppression of the anti-communist uprising in Hungary in 1956, has stood on Prague’s Interbrigade Square since 1980.

The plates disappeared from where the statue of Marshal Konev stood

Photo: Pavel Jaňurek, News

In April this year, the town hall had it removed in response to the statue’s repeated targeting of vandals, even with regard to the marshal’s controversial personality.

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