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Sep 15, 2023

September 15, 2023 ↗ The Prague coalition is above all cohesive. From left Jiří Pospíšil (TOP 09), Bohuslav Svoboda (ODS), Jan Wolf (KDU-ČSL). Photo FB Jiří Pospíšil In recent days, new and important information from the police file of the Dosimeter case has been published. They explain the role of Jiří Pospíšil (TOP 09) in a criminal group that blackmailed Prague businessmen. Not only did he rush to hang out with mobsters and lie and perjure himself about these meetings, but he himself initiated the key meeting. We consider these facts to be so serious that we have called on Jiří Pospíšil to take political responsibility and resign from his political positions. We are ready to revoke it. The facts speak clearly. According to information from police files published by Deník N on August 28, Jiří Pospíšil organized a meeting in Italy in 2018. It was attended by Petr Gazdík and Stanislav Polčák (both STAN), Pospíšil’s assistant Jiří Fremr and the head of the criminal group Michal Redl. This meeting was particularly significant. Portioning a bear In addition to agreeing to cooperate in the Prague municipal elections in 2018 (at that time, TOP 09 and STAN were running in a coalition as the United Forces for Prague), it was here that the “portioning of the bear” between the two parties was supposed to take place — i.e., the design of a system for sharing commissions from blackmailing suppliers , which a group organized by Redl planned to commit after the elections. Michal Redl, a person connected to Radovan Krejčíř and the main actor in the Dosimeter case, therefore moved around several politicians, including former Minister of Education Petr Gazdík. Neither Gazdík nor Pospíšil have yet been charged in the Dosimeter case. Gazdík drew the consequences of his actions and left the ministerial seat. And Jiří Pospíšil? He now blames the media and everyone around him and intends to continue sitting in the European Parliament and in the Prague Council as if nothing had happened. The president of TOP 09, Markéta Pekarová Adamová, also commented on Pospíšil’s connection to the Dozimeter case, who called on Pospíšil to consider his candidacy before the municipal elections in 2022. With regard to his contacts with people from Dosimeter, she would certainly not burden TOP 09 herself in his place. However, Jiří Pospíšil did not even listen to the TOP 09 chairman’s call. So far, Pospíšil’s only political victim was his ouster from the position of chairman of the United Forces club in 2021, which was the result of his agreement with Jiří Fremr. Jiří Fremr, who was caught several times on wiretaps in the conspiracy apartment in the Dosimeter case, was Pospíšil’s right-hand man. He regularly participated in various meetings alongside Pospíšil or instead of him, and thanks to Pospíšil’s cover, he often acted on behalf of the Prague cell TOP 09, despite the displeasure of some of its members. Just as Mirek Topolánek had Marko Dalík and Petr Nečas had Jana Nagyová, Jiří Pospíšil had Jiří Fremr, now a former member of Prague’s TOP 09, to implement the agreements from the Italian meeting. He and the mobster Redl noted how they were going to rob Prague. And it was again Fremr who, on behalf of Pospíšil, advised the Prague hotelier Bauer on whom to bribe from TOP 09 so that the Prague coalition would fall. It bothered Bauer that this coalition was cultivating restaurant forecourts in the historic center, and thus affecting his business as well. The representatives of Koubek and Vondra, who were offered and given a bribe, reported everything to the police. The fall of the coalition did not happen and Bauer ended up in court. And Pospíšil’s TOP 09 punished Koubek and Vondra as they deserved — they were removed from the Prague candidate list in the next election. A culture of dodging The current tame attitude of TOP 09 is clearly a negative signal towards the voters. The continuation of Jiří Pospíšil in office threatens the trust of citizens not only in the leadership of Prague, it legitimizes corruption and tramples the remnants of the political culture that we tried to cultivate in the municipality during the last election period. The TOGETHER coalition, the Pirates and the Mayors promised change in the elections, but it is surprising how the fulfillment of this promise looks like. For some politicians, contact with the mafia is common and normal. Not for us. However, the reaction of the Prague Pirates is also surprising: “However, the nomination of Jiří Pospíšil is the political responsibility of the SPOLU club. When the majority of voters are against corruption, as Pirates, we guarantee that no party involved in corruption cases and strange personal ties will be able to rule or manage public property.” This alibi approach can be used to defend a coalition with ANO, the SPD and, in fact, with absolutely everyone. This is not how corruption is swept out of politics, this is how corruption is tolerated and legitimized. At the same time, the Pirates themselves called on Jiří Pospíšil to resign a year ago. Unfortunately, after the elections, they forgot their “courage to manage the city properly” and today Jiří Pospíšil is already their partner. The pirate “Let us on them” slowly turns into “Let us among them”. We promised our voters that we would not enter into a coalition with people involved in the Dosimeter case or with politicians prosecuted. We kept this promise and called on the Pirates and STAN to definitively clean Prague politics of the Dosimeter. And also Markéta Pekarová Adamová. The pirates met with us last week, but Jiří Pospíšil still has their trust. STAN, whose main face Petr Hlubuček was accused in the Dosimeter case and is now awaiting indictment, did not respond to our request for a meeting. Thursday’s extraordinary assembly was convened precisely because of Jiří Pospíšil and his role in the Dosimeter case. Why did Jiří Pospíšil meet with the mafia? Why did he keep an advisor he knew was a gray eminence, give him political cover, and thus allow the whole Dosimeter to even get off the ground? However, there were no questions. The coalition folded and avoided confrontation by referring to various pseudo-causes.