Violence Against the Media in Czechia

Police in Czechia have launched investigations, as members of President Milos Zaman's security and supporters attacked reporters at his election headquarters.

Those Saturday evening attacked acne journalists and damaged a private television camera, and neither did the journalists. The attack took place at a hotel in Prague, where supporters were celebrating the Zeman victory in the second round of presidential elections, which took place Friday and Saturday after Zaman left.

Journalists tried to film the arrival of the ambulance that had gone there to get a guest of Zeman, who had lost consciousness after he was drunk.

Security members of the Zeman staff who started pushing and getting reporters out, as one of the guards knocked down the camera on the ground, and a guest of Zeman came to his aid, who started punching a journalist who was trying to explain that journalists were only doing their job. Spurses and insults didn't save the reporters either.

The attack was also condemned by Reporters Without Borders, who said these attacks are a disgrace to a European democracy and demanded that immediately the attacks against journalists be stopped. /21Media