The Czech police have closed their more than two-year enquiry into the alleged post-war violence of Czechs against local Germans in the Dobronin village near Jihlava, the police told CTK today, adding that only those harmed in this case will be acquainted with the results.
Pavel Penaz, from the regional police directorate, said the police cannot comment on the course or the result of the investigation.
"The regional state attorney has reserved the providing of information on the case for herself," Penaz said.
The police checked the case of human remains uncovered in the Budinka and U Viaduktu localities near Dobronin for more than two years.
In Budinka, the remains of local Germans who allegedly fell victims to Czech violence at the end of WWII, were taken out from a mass grave in August 2010. Anthropologists then said the bodies of at least 13 people, aged from 30 to 60, were buried in Budinka.
The cause of their death is unclear. According to some information, they were beaten to death by shovels and hoes, but anthropologists have not confirmed this.
The police investigated the case on suspicion of murder.
Remains of another three people were uncovered in Dobronin's U Viaduktu locality.
All remains were sent for an analysis to the Anthropological Institute in Brno and for DNA tests to the Criminology Institute in Prague.
The uncovering of the human remains stirred strong emotions in Dobronin. The remains were ceremonially buried at the Jihlava cemetery this September.
According to the media's previous information, the last possible witness of the Dobronin May 1945 events died in the hospital in the regional centre Jihlava in early 2011. According to the police, the witness was questioned but his information could not be taken for relevant in view of his high age and the way he presented his testimony.
Thursday 27 December 2012
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