Unknown vandals desecrated a pedestal in Prague, which previously was a monument to Marshal Ivan Konev, told RIA Novosti police spokesman Jan Danek.
"About 9.30 am (10.30 GMT), the police received a call from a man who said that came to lay in honor of the holiday on may 9 flowers to the pedestal on which once stood the monument to Soviet Marshal Konev, and he discovered that the pedestal is placed a bowl of foam with a height of about two meters. The police quickly arrived on the scene. Anyone at the pedestal was gone, and the toilet has been removed, stood near," said Danek.
According to him, the police began investigating the incident, which has not yet received a legal assessment.
In early April the authorities of the district Prague 6 the dismantled monument to Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev liberated the city from the Nazis in may 1945. According to the initiator of the dismantling, the head of the district of ondřej Kolář, the monument will be placed in the created by the city Museum memory of the twentieth century.
The Russian foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called the actions "outrageous and cynical". The Kremlin said that Moscow would prefer to see a monument to Konev restored to Czech or Russian soil. The RF IC opened a criminal case over the desecration of symbols of Russia’s military glory, committed publicly, the Russian investigators intend to prosecute participants of the demolition of the monument. Czech President Milos Zeman called the dismantling of the monument to stupidity, which made a slight Czech politics.
