50th anniversary of Palach's death, memorial to Jan Palach, piety, candles

50th anniversary of Palach's death, memorial to Jan Palach, piety, candles

People light candles at the memorial to Jan Palach, who burned himself to death in protest against the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Soviet troops in 1968 marring the Communist reform movement known as Prague Spring, in the Brussels quarter of Sint-Pieters-Woluwe today, on Wednesday, January 16, 2019. Palach's marble bust is placed on a high plinth surrounded by creeping flames. The bust, which was donated by Czech academic sculptor Frantisek Janda to the Czech Embasssy in Belgium, is placed in a villa quarter of diplomats and EU officials. An inscription in French and Flemish reads: Jan Palach, died on January 19, 1969. Palach, a student of the Charles University's Faculty of Arts, set himself on fire in Prague on January 16, 1969 in protest against people's growing lethargy following the August 21, 1968 Soviet-led Warsaw troops invasion of Czechoslovakia. He died of fatal burns three days later, aged 20. (CTK Photo/Jakub Dospiva)

50th anniversary of Palach's death, memorial to Jan Palach, piety, candles

50th anniversary of Palach's death, memorial to Jan Palach, piety, candles

People light candles at the memorial to Jan Palach, who burned himself to death in protest against the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Soviet troops in 1968 marring the Communist reform movement known as Prague Spring, in the Brussels quarter of Sint-Pieters-Woluwe today, on Wednesday, January 16, 2019. Palach's marble bust is placed on a high plinth surrounded by creeping flames. The bust, which was donated by Czech academic sculptor Frantisek Janda to the Czech Embasssy in Belgium, is placed in a villa quarter of diplomats and EU officials. An inscription in French and Flemish reads: Jan Palach, died on January 19, 1969. Palach, a student of the Charles University's Faculty of Arts, set himself on fire in Prague on January 16, 1969 in protest against people's growing lethargy following the August 21, 1968 Soviet-led Warsaw troops invasion of Czechoslovakia. He died of fatal burns three days later, aged 20. (CTK Photo/Jakub Dospiva)

50th anniversary of Palach's death, memorial to Jan Palach, piety, candles

50th anniversary of Palach's death, memorial to Jan Palach, piety, candles

People light candles at the memorial to Jan Palach, who burned himself to death in protest against the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Soviet troops in 1968 marring the Communist reform movement known as Prague Spring, in the Brussels quarter of Sint-Pieters-Woluwe today, on Wednesday, January 16, 2019. Palach's marble bust is placed on a high plinth surrounded by creeping flames. The bust, which was donated by Czech academic sculptor Frantisek Janda to the Czech Embasssy in Belgium, is placed in a villa quarter of diplomats and EU officials. An inscription in French and Flemish reads: Jan Palach, died on January 19, 1969. Palach, a student of the Charles University's Faculty of Arts, set himself on fire in Prague on January 16, 1969 in protest against people's growing lethargy following the August 21, 1968 Soviet-led Warsaw troops invasion of Czechoslovakia. He died of fatal burns three days later, aged 20. (CTK Photo/Jakub Dospiva)

50th anniversary of Palach's death, memorial to Jan Palach, piety, candles

50th anniversary of Palach's death, memorial to Jan Palach, piety, candles

People light candles at the memorial to Jan Palach, who burned himself to death in protest against the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Soviet troops in 1968 marring the Communist reform movement known as Prague Spring, in the Brussels quarter of Sint-Pieters-Woluwe today, on Wednesday, January 16, 2019. Palach's marble bust is placed on a high plinth surrounded by creeping flames. The bust, which was donated by Czech academic sculptor Frantisek Janda to the Czech Embasssy in Belgium, is placed in a villa quarter of diplomats and EU officials. An inscription in French and Flemish reads: Jan Palach, died on January 19, 1969. Palach, a student of the Charles University's Faculty of Arts, set himself on fire in Prague on January 16, 1969 in protest against people's growing lethargy following the August 21, 1968 Soviet-led Warsaw troops invasion of Czechoslovakia. He died of fatal burns three days later, aged 20. (CTK Photo/Jakub Dospiva)

50th anniversary of Palach's death, memorial to Jan Palach, piety, candles

50th anniversary of Palach's death, memorial to Jan Palach, piety, candles

People light candles at the memorial to Jan Palach, who burned himself to death in protest against the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Soviet troops in 1968 marring the Communist reform movement known as Prague Spring, in the Brussels quarter of Sint-Pieters-Woluwe today, on Wednesday, January 16, 2019. Palach's marble bust is placed on a high plinth surrounded by creeping flames. The bust, which was donated by Czech academic sculptor Frantisek Janda to the Czech Embasssy in Belgium, is placed in a villa quarter of diplomats and EU officials. An inscription in French and Flemish reads: Jan Palach, died on January 19, 1969. Palach, a student of the Charles University's Faculty of Arts, set himself on fire in Prague on January 16, 1969 in protest against people's growing lethargy following the August 21, 1968 Soviet-led Warsaw troops invasion of Czechoslovakia. He died of fatal burns three days later, aged 20. (CTK Photo/Jakub Dospiva)

50th anniversary of Palach's death, memorial to Jan Palach, piety, candles

50th anniversary of Palach's death, memorial to Jan Palach, piety, candles

People light candles at the memorial to Jan Palach, who burned himself to death in protest against the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Soviet troops in 1968 marring the Communist reform movement known as Prague Spring, in the Brussels quarter of Sint-Pieters-Woluwe today, on Wednesday, January 16, 2019. Palach's marble bust is placed on a high plinth surrounded by creeping flames. The bust, which was donated by Czech academic sculptor Frantisek Janda to the Czech Embasssy in Belgium, is placed in a villa quarter of diplomats and EU officials. An inscription in French and Flemish reads: Jan Palach, died on January 19, 1969. Palach, a student of the Charles University's Faculty of Arts, set himself on fire in Prague on January 16, 1969 in protest against people's growing lethargy following the August 21, 1968 Soviet-led Warsaw troops invasion of Czechoslovakia. He died of fatal burns three days later, aged 20. (CTK Photo/Jakub Dospiva)