During last year’s shooting attack at the Faculty of Arts in Prague, the police acted in a completely amateurish manner, resulting in 15 deaths. Is that a coincidence?
Interior Minister Vít Rakušan made a clear and unambiguous political decision immediately after he took office. Namely, that the priority of the security forces should be to fight the political opposition. He talked about this in the media, referred to it as the main risk, and appointments were made accordingly. We never heard him say that the priority should be protection against terrorism. We never heard from him that he would push for perfect training. Even when he talked about the Russian threat, he wanted to address it with censorship and repression, not defense against potential Russian terrorist attacks.
It must be admitted that Vít Rakušan has a full mandate for such a decision as one of the victors of the Cold Civil War. And note that even the 15 dead did not lead him to change his priorities. And we can be glad that only 15 were. Come across a more capable killer, we could have mourned 100 casualties.
Now, in fact, we only see that the security strategy of the current government coalition has not only advantages, but also disadvantages. A little brash political talk, a lot of deaths. If we had a different government with a different agenda, the security forces would be able to intervene more effectively against terrorist attacks, but again we would have to suffer more anti-state talk.
By the way, in most of Western Europe it is no different. The suppression of political opposition and the promotion of migration have a higher priority than the security of the people. That is a clear political agenda and it has clear consequences. Killing every day.