Jan Šinágl angažovaný občan, nezávislý publicista

Žebrák Castle 13.8.2021: Interview of Jan Šinágl with the ex-ambassador of Slovenia to the Czech Republic Damjan Prelovšek

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Morocco cares very much about the reputation of the country and its ruler, much more than the Czech Republic.

I can see from this case that, for example, the State Secretary Miloslav Stasek (now the Czech ambassador to the USA) did not care how he behaved and how he destroyed the consul, that it gave the MFA a bad international name. The MFA slandered me everywhere and some "diplomacy went to the flowers". But that doesn't happen in other countries. Personally, I would never have expected such behaviour and deception and I am glad that at least internationally I still have some recognition and prestige in other countries. From the whole case, I now have the feeling that a condition for a career in the Czech MFA is to participate in illegal conduct or at least to keep quiet about it.

Perhaps he was forbidden to act by his director Hynek Pejcha? The main responsibility for the inaction of the Security Department lies, of course, with its director.

All this confirms the impression I have acquired during 2019 - that it is not just a matter of a few visas and the transfer of a few poor Berbers to France or elsewhere in Europe, but that there are other, perhaps much more serious things behind the visas. Otherwise the pressure on the consul would not have been so strong and she would not have been so inhumanly brutally removed. That is never the way to proceed in diplomacy. To choose methods a la communism means that someone cared very, very much about destroying it. And it had to be done quickly, lest she accidentally find out what was behind the visas. She was too professional and active, she wanted to work according to the guidelines and for the good of Europe's security - that is, to help catch the whole group that was cheating with the visas. In a normal country, she would have been rewarded for this, but in a corrupt state it is exactly the opposite.

Badraoui spoke of the security officer with disdain - first he promised the consul help, urged her to collect evidence, wanted to send it to his personal email, and then did nothing. I myself sent him the first recordings regarding the fraudulent visas as soon as I received them from the Moroccans - in October 2019. But he did nothing.

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"The little man does not consider small good as a benefit and so does not do them. He doesn't consider small evils to be bad and so he doesn't do them. Therefore the evil accumulates until it cannot be covered up, the guilt becomes so great that it can no longer be forgiven."

Confucius

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"By the application of certain principles, civilizations are first brought to flourishing and then, by persisting in these principles and their later, atrophied form, to destruction."

 Prof. Bartou and his formulation of the so-called Law of Heracleitus.

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