Crackdown on Prague’s seedy side
Police in Prague have reportedly made massive raids on the city’s burgeoning sex industry over the weekend, in an attempt to clean up the city’s image.
Since the Velvet Revolution in 1989, when the communist regime was brought down, the city has been increasingly popular with sex tourists and stag parties; so much so that The Times refers to the city as “the Bangkok of central Europe”.
It goes on to state that the centre of Prague has become an embarrassment to the government as the country prepares to become part of the European Union. The newspaper reports that 5,000 police officers raided around 400 clubs and brothels on what is technically an illegal industry.
The Prague Post states that there are 850 brothels in the country and between 3,000 and 6,000 street prostitutes; low prices compared to nearby countries including Germany and Austria have reportedly exacerbated the problem and the city has recently become increasingly popular with stag parties from the UK.
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