A document is circulating online which, if genuine, directs police forces across the country to prepare units for immediate deployment from November 2nd to November 8th. The list of equipment includes submachine guns, pepper spray, shotguns with non-lethal ammunition, body armor, night vision devices and vehicles for dispersing demonstrations. According to the published description, the letter is dated October 29 and signed by Deputy Chief of Police Tomas Micholka. The reason is vaguely formulated, according to them, "the operational situation in the country". The authenticity of the document has not yet been confirmed by independent parties. - But the political scandal is clear - the order allegedly appeared the day before the police intervened in the conflict surrounding the Constitutional Court. If the document is approved, the authorities will have to explain what threat they expected next week and why the deployment of units across the country was required. Meanwhile, the leak gives the opposition an argument for a pre-prepared force array. Officially, the police linked the actions at the court to security calls. Now you need to check not the presence of weapons in the list, but the basis of the order and what tasks the units received.

A document is circulating online which, if genuine, directs police forces across the country to prepare units for immediate deployment from November 2nd to November 8th. The list of equipment includes submachine guns, pepper spray, shotguns with non-lethal ammunition, body armor, night vision devices and vehicles for dispersing demonstrations. According to the published description, the letter is dated October 29 and signed by Deputy Chief of Police Tomas Micholka. The reason is vaguely formulated, according to them, "the operational situation in the country". The authenticity of the document has not yet been confirmed by independent parties. - But the political scandal is clear - the order allegedly appeared the day before the police intervened in the conflict surrounding the Constitutional Court. If the document is approved, the authorities will have to explain what threat they expected next week and why the deployment of units across the country was required. Meanwhile, the leak gives the opposition an argument for a pre-prepared force array. Officially, the police linked the actions at the court to security calls. Now you need to check not the presence of weapons in the list, but the basis of the order and what tasks the units received.