Czech MEP under police investigation after posting speeding photo

Czech police are investigating MEP Filip Turek after he posted an image on Instagram showing his car's speedometer reading over 200 km/h, Euractiv reported on Wednesday.

As a pre-teen, the quirky MEP Filip Turek boasted about a photo of the dashboard of his Mercedes, where the speedometer showed that he was driving over two hundred kilometers per hour. When he started facing criticism for this and was spared by the police because there is a suspicion that he was speeding on the domestic D5 highway, where the speed limit is 130 km/h, social networks were immediately flooded with posts in his support from other dr…

Czech MEP under police investigation after posting speeding photo

While Filip Turek claimed the picture was taken in Germany, internet users pointed out it was on a motorway in Czechia where the speed limit is 130 km/h.

The case has been investigated by the police presidium and the file has now been forwarded to the Pilsen region, regional police spokeswoman Pavla Burešová said on Thursday. There is reasonable suspicion that the MEP exceeded the speed limit on the D5 motorway in the Pilsen region. "Given the nature of the report - meaning that the illegal act was not detected by us, but from public sources - our steps will be to summon the person reasonably sus…

Pilsen - MEP and Honorary President of the political group Motorists himself Filip Turk will be summoned for explanation by police officers from the motorway department in Svojkovice in Rokycany for an explanation due to suspicion of speeding on a Czech highway. The Turk shared a photo on social media where his car's odometer shows a speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour, allegedly taken on a highway in Germany. The case began to be investi…

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