Czech President: Current migrant wave an organized invasion, threatens security

Prague, Nov 26 (CTK) – Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka’s stance on the migrant crisis threatens the security of the Czech Republic, President Milos Zeman told yesterday’s issue of daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD), calling the current migrant wave an organised invasion.

Zeman also reacted to Sobotka’s criticism of his speech during the celebrations in Prague-Albertov on November 17, a national holiday marking the student demonstrations against the Nazi occupation in 1939 and against the Communist regime in 1989, when he appeared side by side with the Bloc against Islam chairman Martin Konvicka on the stage.

The organisers of the event decided who would stand next to the president on the stage, Zeman argued, adding that he is “no censor.”

Zeman said at the Czech military command’s meeting on Tuesday a danger had approached the Czech border. It is naive to believe that there is no link between the current migrant wave and terrorism, he added.

In reaction to it, Sobotka (Social Democrats, CSSD) said the danger was posed by terrorists, not refugees who must be helped.

Such a stance is dangerous for the Czech Republic “by its hesitation, indecisiveness and a number of other conciliatory and seemingly humanitarian gestures, which in my opinion underestimate the real danger because I unlike him [Sobotka] consider the migrant crisis an invasion,” Zeman told MfD.

Islamist State is undoubtedly sending jihadists to the migrants’ flow, which the recent terrorist attacks in Paris have confirmed, Zeman said.

Sobotka told Radio Impuls that he and the whole coalition government were dealing with the migrant crisis and the security situation in the Czech Republic very intensively.
“The government has had the situation in control all the time during the migrant wave. The prime minister and the interior minister along with the BIS counter-intelligence service’s chief are assessing current information every day,” Sobotka said.

He has convoked a special government meeting for Saturday to discuss the security situation in the Czech Republic.

via Gates of Vienna:

On November 17 Czech President Miloš Zeman spoke at a rally in the Czech Republic organized by the group “Block Against Islam”.