Constitutional Court dismisses police conduct to journalist

The police command should not have wanted a journalist who demanded much information about crime to pay several million crowns to it, the Czech Constitutional Court has ruled, US judge-rapporteur Vojtech Simicek said about the ruling today. In setting down the large sum, the police command created an artificial barrier due to which the journalist did not have access to information, Simicek said. The US has thus complied with a complain filed by IT reporter Jan Cibulka, from whom the police command demanded the payment of almost 26 million crowns for the provision of detailed information about crime in 2016.