Czech news in brief for April 27: Monday's top afternoon headlines

Interior Minister Lubomír Metnar (ANO) appointed Richard Hodul as the new general director of Czech Post, the ministry announced today on X. Hodul is the former director for Central and Eastern Europe of German-owned Tchibo and previously worked for the Sportisimo retail group. The former head of Czech Post Miroslav Štěpán was dismissed at the start of the year over poor management.

The regulation of profit margins and the reduction of excise duties on diesel will continue next month, Finance Minister Alena Schillerová announced today. Claiming Czech drivers have been saving up to CZK 400 for every full tank due to the government's measures, Schillerová had been pushing for a law on fuel price regulation from the start of May, but it's unclear whether this will take effect on time.

The upcoming congress of Sudeten Germans, set to take place next month in Brno, is facing controversy and stirring up passions, Seznam Zpravy reports. Deaths threats are being sent to members and organizers of the so-called festival of reconciliation, a ten-day event to commemorate the history of Sudeten Germans criticized by Czechia's far-right and disinformation scene.

Czech police have charged a 34-year-old Czech man with giving a 27-year-old foreigner a lethal dose of GHB - also known as liquid ecstasy - after the two met in a gay bar in Prague's Smíchov district, Novinky.cz reports. The incident occurred last year but criminal prosecution was only initiated after months of investigation. Dangerous, colorless but with a salty taste, GHB is classified as a so-called "date rape drug" by police investigators.

About 60 percent of Czechs believe the US and Israeli attack launched in February against Iran was neither justified nor proportionate, a new survey by the Center for Public Opinion Research (CVVM) has found. On the other hand, a bit more than a quarter of people think Iran is primarily to blame for the war, and about nine out of ten respondents agree that the conflict poses a threat to world peace.