Русская версияThe anti-aircraft defence radar worth half a billion crowns has been completed recently.
It is to monitor aircraft operation over Moravia.
Officials from Hosteradky-Resov, a village situated in the battlefield's vicinity, has sharply protested against the radar project from the beginning.
Hosteradky-Resov wanted its objections to be handled by a court, not only construction authorities. It was also fiercely opposed to the radar being built at the former battlefield.
By turning down the complaint, the US has indirectly upheld the previous decisions by lower level courts which said the decision on the radar project had been within power of the relevant authorities.
Hosteradky-Resov officials "struggled" on behalf of several municipalities in the battlefield's surroundings.
"We believe that it is simply inappropriate to launch construction projects at a cemetery," the complainants' defence counsel Jaroslav Broz told CTK recently, alluding to the thousands of victims of the battle in which France's Napoleon defeated the armies of the Austrian emperor and the Russian tzar.
In its constitutional complaint, Hosteradky-Resov used emotional formulations such as "soil soaked with blood" and "suffering of the battle victims," and it called for respect for the dead.
In the US verdict, judge-rapporteur Eliska Wagnerova praised the complainants for protecting the above values.
"Nevertheless, the US is convinced that these values are not the core of the ownership right and its protection. Such approach, if taken, would on the contrary blur the ownership right's contours and make the right foggy or even veiled with an esoteric tinge," Wagnerova said.
Three Soviet-made transmitters were erected at the same place near Slavkov in the 1950s. The new radar is far bigger, however. It is 30 metres high, and its cupola diameter measures 18 metres.
($1=16.566 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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