Don’t know whether to laugh or cry on this one:

Reports about the refugees flocking to the Czech Republic are spreading a panic due to which Czechs are increasingly tipping the police about false refugees roaming the country, daily Právo writes today.

Some Czechs have told the police that the refugees are in potatoes fields or building a bunker, Právo writes.

However, these are mostly migrant workers from EU countries, it adds.

See, it’s this:

On September 10, a similar case occurred in Nové Strašecí, central Bohemia. An anonymous phoned the police, saying that a group of refugees was at a bus stop. Due to the large number of the persons in question, two police patrols were sent there, Právo writes.

“It eventually turned out that these were 24 employees from Slovakia who came to pick hops to the region,” a local police officer has told the paper.

The dark color of skin has caused that three footballers playing for the Mladá Boleslav first league club were mistaken for refugees, Právo writes.

This however, really did make me laugh:

The panic has also spread online. A hoax appeared on Facebook, claiming that Islamization has reached the Czech Republic.

Referring to the “reliable sources from the Education Ministry,” it said that Czech first graders would have to learn compulsorily Arabic numerals as of this year.

The seemingly innocent joke was widely misunderstood and provoked a stormy reaction. Some Internet users only hours later grasped that Europe has been using Arabic numerals for centuries, Právo writes.

Welcome to mass hysteria.

praguepost.com