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Czechs, Slovak to create battlegroup ... have the case moved from Darjeeling in northeast India to Calcutta and will try to replace the two men's lawyer, Kreuter said. The two men, Emil Kucera, 52, and biologist Petr Svacha, 51, face up to seven years in prison if found guilty of illegal collection of insects. Kucera and Vacha said the area where they collected the insects was not marked as a national park and that nearby were grazing and somebody was chopping down trees. According to the Indian paper Statesman, range officers confiscated several rare butterflies and bugs and the collecting equipment in the Singalila national park near Darjeeling in northeast India from Kucera and Svacha. Smuggling of animals and plants is banned under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), signed by the Czech Republic in 1992. A petition in support of the Czechs has been signed by 525 people.
It was delivered to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and chief minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee of West Bengal, where Czechs are being detained. Kreuter said Czech authorities would try to find a different lawyer for the Czechs as there were "problems with communication now."
(Ceske Noviny)
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