English Translation

ES - 4 - This is exactly how his second excuse must not be rejected as valid. It is clear that on 26 September 1994 the inspector H o r á c e k, who could have been employed at least temporarily, was in charge of two standby officers who were responsible for the day-to-day business. In addition, it would have been easy for P r o c h á z- k a, as he himself had to admit, to have a police officer made available by any Commissioner, and it must therefore be assumed that P ro - c h a z k a had no intention at all of providing assistance to the officials. By totally unfounded rejection of the request of the Budweiser officials, P r o c h á z ka has made it significantly more difficult to implement measures to combat war crimes and it is impossible for the competent services to cooperate successfully. His behaviour must be condemned all the more because he knew that the officials should be involved in a fraud-trading affair in Prague, which is being dealt with by a department of the German Criminal Police, and his arrogant and degrading attitude towards the three officials and thus also towards the German inspectors. P r o c h á z ka apologised for having had a lot of work to do on that day and therefore being 'unfriendly'. Apart from the fact that he is not accused of being unkind, but of indecisive statements, his statement cannot be accepted as an excuse, since it is unacceptable that the treatment of German officials should be dependent on the accidental whims or moods of protectorate officials. Since the conduct of the P r o c h á z k a must be seen as an infringement of the obligations which he has to fulfil as an official responsible for combating war crimes, he was transferred to the Prag Court for judgment.