Police investigating nationalists' plan for memorial - press

The police have started investigating the plan of the National Party (NS) to build a memorial to World War Two victims in Lety, south Bohemia, on the site of the former Nazi camp for Czech Romanies, the dailies Lidove noviny (LN) and Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) write. The government human rights commissioner Svatopluk Karasek has also addressed the police, LN writes. 'The police have told me that they consider it illegal and that they will remove the memorial,' Karasek said. 'If no one is ready to remove the memorial, we will launch a collection in our council and do it in our own right,' Karasek said. The NS say that the purchase and establishment of the memorial has cost it tens of thousands of crowns. Lety's mayor Rostislav Jandera told the paper that NS bought a stone in the nearby quarry Lasovice for 900 crowns, while its transport cost some 2,000 crowns.