Sunday

Chronicle of October 4, 2026

14 entries

• Approximately a thousand vehicles gathered for an illegal tuning meet in Brno and its surroundings, police checked around 700 crews, issued fines totalling more than 200,000 crowns and impounded some cars.

  iDNES.cz · ČT24: regiony · Lidovky.cz · Echo24
  

• The public prosecutor discontinued the criminal prosecution of a man who joined the Ukrainian army without the president's permission, reasoning that the defence of Ukraine also constitutes a forward defence of the Czech Republic.

  iROZHLAS · Novinky.cz · Seznam Zprávy

• Norwegian police ended weeks of searching for three missing Czechs from a fishing boat that capsized on 18 September near the Norwegian island of Averøya, and now consider all four men aboard to be dead.

  iDNES.cz · ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz · Seznam Zprávy · Blesk.cz

• Both coalition and opposition politicians criticised President Petr Pavel for missing the upcoming municipal elections due to a private trip abroad; the Castle explained the absence as a planning error.

  Echo24 · Ekonomický deník · ČTK / České noviny · iROZHLAS · ČT24 · Blesk.cz
  

• An ultralight aircraft crashed onto a golf course near the airport in Havlíčkův Brod during a failed landing manoeuvre, and the pilot, with no apparent injuries, was taken to hospital for examination.

  Deník.cz · Jihlavská Drbna
  

• A self-service grocery shop caught fire on the Dědina housing estate in Prague 6, on Žukovského street; firefighters declared a second-degree alarm, staff evacuated the shop in time and nobody was injured.

  Blesk.cz · Pražská Drbna
  

• A motorcyclist died in a crash on road I/19 near Pelhřimov, and police are looking for witnesses.

  Jihlavská Drbna · Novinky.cz
  

• At a level crossing in Bohdíkov in Šumperk District a car collided with a train and its driver died; rail traffic on the line was halted for about three hours.

  Deník: Olomoucký kraj · Novinky.cz
  

• A seven-kilometre section of the D11 motorway near Chlumec nad Cidlinou was fully reopened after a month of repairs, and all restrictions there have ended.

  Zdopravy.cz · Ekonomický deník
  

• In the South Bohemian Region, a small aeroplane ended up off the runway after a failed landing at the airfield in Hosín near České Budějovice, and both men on board escaped without serious injuries.

  Novinky.cz · iDNES.cz
  

• Member of Parliament Filip Turek apologised on Facebook on 4 October 2026 to the company Seznam.cz for his April statement about employees reading users' e-mails, an apology required by a ruling of the Municipal Court in Prague.

  Seznam Zprávy · ČT24
  

• Singer Michal David performed in Tachov on 4 October 2026 at the last of seven concerts in the Cheb and Tachov areas, with which he supported the Senate election campaign of the ANO candidate Sandra Tsoukernik.

  Hospodářské noviny · FORUM 24
  

• A fire broke out in a family house in Želechovice nad Dřevnicí near Zlín, destroying the entire roof and lightly injuring one of the volunteer firefighters.

  Deník: Zlínský kraj · ZLIN.CZ
  

• The company Seznam.cz rejected MP Filip Turek's Facebook apology as fulfilment of the obligation imposed by the court, announcing it would wait for the ruling to become final and, if necessary, pursue enforcement.

  ČTK / České noviny · Hospodářské noviny · FORUM 24
  

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