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Burglary belongs among the most frequent crimes. Burglars usually break a window of a house, get into it and steal money or things there. They usually don´t intend to cause lots of damage.

I still remember a case which was different and which happened in winter a few years ago. Two burglars got into a remote cottage of a family, that they knew and stole things like a tent, a pair of ski, lawnmower, a few bottles of spirit and other things. They knew that the cottage was abandoned during winter. After that they hid the stolen things in the flat of one of them to sell them later, because they needed money. The next day they met themselves again and decided to go back to the cottage and set it on fire, because they were afraid of their finger prints to be found there by the police. That’s why the same day they arrived there with a can of petrol and started the fire and the cottage was completely destroyed.

Police started a large investigation. Lots of people were questioned and our burglars belonged among the main suspicious people, but they denied both burglary and arson. In spite of this the police found out that our burglars, living in a great poverty, had suddenly things like lawnmower and a pair of ski. They were not able to explain it and they didn’t want to give things like this to the police to control, so the judge arrested them and ordered a house serching in their dwellings and the stolen things were really found there. After that one of the burglars confessed the crime and described the whole action and during confrontation between them the second one confessed too.

The investigation didn’t last long and the trial was finished during one hearing. The burglars were lucky because the penalty for their crime was between 6 month and 3 years of prison. It wasn’t possible to use more strict penalty so they were sent to prison for 2 years. The prosecutor accepted their punishment. Both burglars appealed but they were not successful. They also were ordered to pay the damage, but they wouldn’t be able to do it, because they were without money and without any property.

I have to add, that while the value of stolen things was only around 30 000,- CZK (1 000 euro), the value of the cottage with furniture and other things was more than 1 800 000 CZK (60 000 euro).

I hoped it would going to snow with the temperatures deep below freezing during Christmas this year, but the situation has been quite different so far. On Christmas Eve there was some rain with the temperature around 5 degrees Celsius. Today on Christmas Day it’s the same, it’s cloudy and rather warm, around 8 degrees Celsius. I’m afraid that even in Boxing day there wan’t be any change, because the weather forecast isn’t optimistic. The weather like this isn’t healthy, flu and tonsilitis are threatening all the time.
In spite of this, the Christmas Eve was excellent, we had a wonderful time in our flat. I decorated the christmas tree and was looking forward to my relatives who came around the noon. We spent the whole day like usual, everything was very nice and pleasant. Father Christmas was generous with his surprising presents.
This morning we’ve visited Laura’s flat, where we’re going to spend the whole day. On the Boxing Day our christmas celebration will also continue and I’m going to relax a bit then, because I don’t have to go to work on Monday.
I wonder if the New Year’s Eve and the New Year’s Day will be white and on ice.

One day Andrea, a divorced woman living alone with her 10 year old daughter Jana in a small flat, invited her former husband Jan, her sister Helena and her brother-in-law Tom, who was Helena’s husband to her flat to celebrate her birthday.
Invited people arrived in the afternoon and started celebration, which mainly consisted of drinking alcohol, both beer and different kinds of spirit.
Jana spent the whole afternoon in her room and soon after dinner, prepared by her mother, she went to bed. In the morning she got up as usual and without breakfast she went to school. On her way to school she bought some cakes as she always does. During celebration she didn’t enter the sitting room.
Andrea and her guests continued drinking in the sitting room, which also served as a bedroom for Andrea. During celebration all the people got drunk. They fell asleep in a different time after midnight and were sleeping on the carpet or in an armchait in the sitting room. During the next morning they gradually left Andrea’s flat without saying good bye, so at the end Andrea, who was drunken most and woken up last, stayed there alone. At noon she decided to do some shopping to prepare meal for her daughter, but she wasn’t able to find her purse. She usually have it in a wardrobe in the sitting room. She tried to find it, so she searched the whole flat, but she didn’t find it. She was sure that she had had it before the celebration started and that during the celebration none of them had left the flat to buy another alcohol.
It was clear that some of the visitors had stolen it. She suspected Jan of stealing the purse, because he was unemployed and without money, but Tom was also able to steal it because he had been already in prison a few times for a theft. She visited both Jan and Tom and asked them to give her back her money, but they both denied a theft, so after a few days, not at once, she announced a case to the police.
A police inspector from a local police station started investigation for a theft, he interviewed both the people, who had taken part in the celebration in Andrea’s flat and the people from neighbourhood, but without a positive result. Of course, none of the guests confessed stealing the purse with money. People from neighbourhood didn’t notice anything. They only were very annoyed during the celebration, because it was very noisy even in the night. Stolen purse wasn’t found.
During investigation there wasn’t found any evedence against a certain person, so the police inspector had to put a case ad acta. The purse might have been stolen not only by Jan or Tom. Helena was also able to steal it, because she worked as a cleaning woman and she didn’t earn lots of money, she liked drinking alcohol and had a strong smoking habit, so had shortage of money. It was also possible that Andrea had lost her purse still before the celebration started without notice it, because she regularly drinks beer and is drunken very often.
The decision of the police inspector was found lawful, so the prosecutor accepted it and none person was accused of stealing Andrea’s purse.

Every Tuesday evening I watch TV. There’s a programme called “Na plovárně”, which is hosted by Marek Eben.
Marek Eben, who belong among my favourite presenters, invites one famous person in every programme, sometimes from the Czech republic, sometimes from abroad and they talk. When a guest comes from abroad, they talk in English and the programme is binary broadcasted, so I can choose a version in which the interview is translated in Czech language simultaneously or I can choose a version which is broadcasted in Enlisch without translation.
I always choose a version which isn’t translated, so I have to say that Marek Eben can understand Englisch very well and that he speaks English really fluently.
He has visited lots of famous people from abroad so far, for example Garry Kasparov, who is a world champion in chess and who comes from Russia and lives in the USA. He talked about his life in Russia and in the USA.
Another famous sportsman was Rainhold Messner, the best climber in the world, who managed to reach every peak in Himalaya, which is higher then 8 000 m. He managed it without oxygen. Messner comes from Germany, but he also travels around the world a lot. His narration was very interesting.
Marek Eben also invited Franco Nero, an excellent Italien actor, who starred in many famous movies. He also spends only a part of a year in Italy and because he travels a lot.
I was very pleased that Marek Eben invited Jacqueline Bisset a French actor, who is well known from the film “The Deep” and others. She is my favourite actor. She is sixty now, but she is really pretty in spite of the fact that her look isn’t improved with the help of plaastic surgery. She was very kind and heartfull, she talked about his life and interests. I was glad I managed to see her in this programme.
While talking with his guests, Marek Eben is always very attentive and kind, he smiles all the time.
One of his guests was unusual. It was an old man, Im not able to guess his age, but I’d say he is about eighty. He is still a strong man. He was born in our country, but he left the Czechoslovakia when he was young. He started to live in France, where he entered the Foreign league. He was successful there, so he was sent somewhere in the Far East to fight and he survived. He spoke in Czech in this programme. He spoke both about his private life and about his life as a soldier. Marek Eben asked him how many people he had killed and he answered indefinitely. I didn’t like this man. If I was a host I wouldn’t invite him to the programme like this.
I’m looking forwad to seeing another guest from abroad who will accept invitation to this programme. Watching this program is a good way to improve my English too.