“I give interviews to alternative media too,” Macinka says, rejecting criticism of his security detail
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- Foreign Minister Petr Macinka said he is willing to speak with both mainstream and alternative media.
- He rejected suggestions that his security detail failed after a video showed him apparently speaking with an anonymous interviewer without protection present.
Petr Macinka says he has nothing against speaking to alternative media, even when the interviewer uses a pseudonym. The foreign minister was responding to a video that allegedly showed him giving an interview without his security detail to a person known as Thomas Paukner.
“I am an open person and I am ready to give interviews both to you, the standard media, and quite gladly to alternative media as well,” Macinka told journalists on Thursday evening.
He made the comment after a meeting with Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and Finance Minister Alena Schillerová. Macinka also said the security detail had not failed, responding directly to questions about the circumstances shown in the video.
I am an open person and I am ready to give interviews both to you, the standard media, and quite gladly to alternative media as well.
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Originally published by iDNES in Czech. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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