Milan Chovanec

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said on Monday he would continue talks with the three parties that may support his new government after President Milos Zeman's re-election won him more time for the negotiations, reported Reuters. 

The European Union’s plans to restrict gun ownership are nonsensical, undermine people’s trust in the EU and have a negative impact on the internal security of the Czech Republic, Interior Minister Milan Chovanec said.

Finally: a European country that gets it!

In December, when the European Commission responded to terrorist attacks by passing stricter gun laws, only three countries stood against their impotent actions.

Deputies in the Czech Republic voted overwhelmingly in favor of a constitutional amendment allowing ordinary citizens to carry arms and use them in case of a public emergency such as terrorism.

The Czech parliament has approved a constitutional amendment on security that allows ordinary citizens to take up arms against terrorists.

Czech police have detained 26 illegal migrants from Afghanistan in a Bulgarian-registered van close to the border with Germany, Czech media reported on Thursday.

The Czech Army may deploy up to 2,600 troops at the country's borders if a large-scale influx of refugees leads to an emergency situation, CTK news agency reported on Wednesday, citing a Defence Ministry report.

The gunman who killed eight people in the Czech town of Uhersky Brod on Tuesday had a gun licence and the shooting wasn't a terrorist attack, Interior Minister Milan Chovanec has said.

The perpetrator, a local man aged 60, shot himself dead after killing seven men and one woman in Druzhba restaurant in the town situated about 300 kilometres southeast of Prague.

An apparently unstable armed man burst into a restaurant in an eastern Czech town on Feb. 23, killing eight people before reportedly committing suicide, police and local officials said.
     
Interior Minister Milan Chovanec said eight people had been killed in the rampage at the "Friendship" restaurant in the town of Uhersky Brod and that the gunman was also dead.
      

At least nine people were killed after a shooting took place in the town of Uhersky Brod in the eastern part of the Czech Republic on Tuesday.

According to Czech state television, an armed man burst into a restaurant and started shooting, the BBC reported.

The suspected gunman has also been killed, Czech Interior Minister Milan Chovanec said.