3. 3. 2018

"Nic bych neměnil, práce u SNB nelituji," řekl dnes komunista Zdeněk Ondráček po zvolení do čela Stálé komise pro kontrolu GIBS. Jak je vidět v dobovém videu, nelitoval ani zásahu proti demonstrantům v lednu 1989. (Zdroj: ČT) Více na: https://t.co/l3BjQgja92 pic.twitter.com/yfTzUet302 — Hospodářské noviny (@Hospodarky) March 2, 2018

Members of Czech Parliament have elected the Communist Deputy Zdeněk Ondráček to chair the police oversight committee of GIBS, the Czech government police inspection authority.

As a 19-year-old, Ondráček joined Czechoslovak communist police and has admitted that he beat some demonstrators with a truncheon during the anti-regime demonstrations of the so-called Palach Week in January 1989, which marked the twentieth-anniversary since the immolation of Jan Palach. Palach had burned himself to death in protest against the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion. At the time, Vondráček granted an interview to communist Czechoslovak Television in which he strongly supported police action against the demonstrators:Almost thirty years on, he says that he still adheres to his 1989 views that police action against the demonstrators was correct.