[aneutron]

Can you please attest to the correctness of the news about the Czech government stealing a shipment of masks that was meant to be delivered to Italy [1] ?

If so, is there something the "outsiders" are missing (e.g. some political bs between the two countries) ? Or is it just plain old theft ?

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-czech-...

[raaaaraaaa12]

https://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/why-chinese-masks-...

Czech authorities during a customs raid last Tuesday mistakenly seized 101,600 facemasks gifted by a branch of the Red Cross in eastern China to a Chinese community in Italy. Although Czech officials apologized for the mix-up, the Italian newspaper La Repubblica on Sunday published a bogus article claiming the Czech state had “stolen” that shipment – and much more.

Czechs would send 110,000 facemasks to Italy on Monday (March 23), dispatched along with an evacuation bus of 43 Italian nationals heading home, as agreed with the Italian Embassy in Prague.

--- My comment is that our goverment officials or those policemans are probably stupid...

[TeMPOraL]

> --- My comment is that our goverment officials or those policemans are probably stupid...

Or they thought "better safe than sorry", given that smugglers aren't stupid and you can't just believe it was sent by Red Cross just because the courier says so.

If anything, I'd ask why La Repubblica published a bogus article.

[hguant]

>If anything, I'd ask why La Repubblica published a bogus article.

Seasons come and go, but click bait is eternal

[krab]

It's not clear how the masks appeared in that storage. It may be well possible the masks were stolen by somebody who wanted to sell them. The company owning the storage didn't comment.

The masks were sent to Italy within a few days.

[rat9988]

Why does he have to? You can do your research on internet nowadays and be just as well informed as him.

[rfrey]

A good faith interpretation of aneutron's comment is that they heard this report on Reuters; saw the author is from the Czech Republic and thought it was a good opportunity to find out about "local news" on the issue to get a different perspective.

Agree it sounded confrontational, but it probably wasn't.

[aneutron]

You are correct. There are generally some "hidden" fact. Like some news outlets try to run the story as something that it isn't. It was not confrontational at all.

[ttoinou]

Not the whole world speaks your language :-)