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  • PRAGUE: Russian-Speaking Mafias In Prague At War

    RUSSIAN-SPEAKING MAFIAS IN PRAGUE AT WAR

    Prague Daily Monitor
    March 11 2008
    Czech Republic

    Prague, March 10 (CTK) - Russian-speaking criminal gangs have settled
    their accounts in the streets of Prague's centre at least three times
    since November 2007, the daily Lidove noviny (LN) wrote Monday in
    connection with a Saturday shooting.

    Two unknown gunmen opened fire in the afternoon in Parizska street
    near the Old Town Square, injuring two Russian-speaking men and
    driving away.

    Both injured men are in hospital and guarded by police, the paper
    writes.

    Jan Subert, spokesman for the BIS counter-intelligence, said the
    incident seemed to be part of "a continuing war between Caucasian
    groups, and the Armenian and Chechen mafias."

    The shooting probably ended the truce the two groups called late
    last year.

    On November 13, 2007, a Russian-speaking man was stabbed at Wenceslas
    square in the city's centre.

    Two weeks later, a driver died in a gunman's attack in the neighbouring
    district of Vinohrady.

    The police say the hired shooter was supposed to kill a different
    man, a Russian mafia boss, but made a mistake. The driver was killed
    because he drove the same type of car, a luxurious Bentley limousine.

    Police later revealed that both attacks were probably performed by
    one and the same person, a Chechen man.

    Subert told the paper that peace between mafia gangs never lasted long.

    As for similar incidents, Prague was no exception among European
    cities where mafias from the East settled, he said.

    "The groups closely guard their territories because their business
    is extremely lucrative, being it drugs, weapons or prostitution,"
    Subert told LN.
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