Wilders´s lecture in Prague not to be in Aventin Palace

The eurabia.cz portal, organising Wilders's stay in Prague, reported on Tuesday that Wilders's lecture would take place in the Aventin Palace.

CTK has not yet contacted portal editor-in-chief Edvard Steinsky for comments.

"The lecture was not to and will not take place in the Aventin Palace. We thereby distance ourselves from the event," Salavova told CTK, adding that no one had asked for staging the lecture on the premises.

Wilders is to speak on freedom of speech and "Islamisation" of Europe in Prague on Monday

Steinsky, who along with Civic Democrat (ODS) senator Jiri Oberfalzer have invited Wilders to the Czech Republic, told CTK earlier today that only invited guests would attend Wilder´s lecture.

He justified the step by the limited capacity of the conference hall in the Aventin Palace where Wilders will speak.

The portal has invited selected politicians, journalists and academicians to the lecture.

The lecture will be recorded and be available on the Eurabia.cz portal then, Steinsky added.

Moreover, the portal has offered to other journalists to attend the lecture if they register, and promised to give a press conference with Wilders, he added.

Wilders was originally to lecture in the Senate, upper house of parliament, at the invitation of the Senate media commission, headed by Oberfalzer.

However, the commission abolished Wilders's invitation to the Senate last week after Senate chairman Premysl Sobotka (ODS) and the ODS dissociated themselves from the event.

Wilders, critic of Islamism and immigration, was to screen his anti-Islamic film Fitna, an Arabic word used to describe discord, that combines shots from terrorist attacks after the attack on the United States on September 11, 2001 and anti-West speeches accompanied by Quran recitation.

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