Lipavský had called Babiš “a security risk” during a March 10 talk show on the ČT public broadcaster.
Babiš’ mail also contained mentions of Lipavský’s daughter and a wife. “Does he have kids? Does he speak languages?” the sender asked.
Unfortunately for the former PM, there’s another Jan Rovenský in Czech public life — an ecological activist, who was not best pleased to receive the communication.
“It’s not the first time that Andrej Babiš has accidentally sent me an email, apparently addressed to my namesake, who is his spin doctor,” Rovenský wrote on Facebook. “I never published any of them. I usually either politely ignored them or pointed out the sender’s mistake … But to drag your opponents’ children and wives into this is totally over the line.”
The email, which was leaked to Czech media, provoked strong reactions from several politicians, including Lipavský.
“The email reached me vicariously and its contents disgusted me. It is a great challenge for Czech society to reject, once and for all, the StB [Communist-era Czechoslovak secret police] methods in politics,” Lipavský told Novinky.
