The Czech Republic declared mourning the day after the largest armed attack in the country’s modern history that left 14 people dead, including the attacker at Charles University in Prague.
The police announced that the 24-year-old student, who carried out the attack, subsequently committed suicide A shooting killed 13 people and injured 25 others At the Faculty of Fine Arts at Charles University.
They say it is police information about the injured Gunshot wounds to the head and chest, and some to the extremities. According to local media, some of the injured have already undergone surgery.
Czech police have identified all those killed As stated by Interior Minister Veit Rakosan and expats.cz reports explaining this Three of the wounded He is Foreigners.
Footage from Prague showing students hiding on ledges and people fleeing over the Charles Bridge reminds me of a sad truth: too many people see firearms as the answer to their problems.
I fear that this ideology will spread from the United States through the Internet.https://t.co/1QGnCHdre8
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The Dutch Foreign Minister said earlier that one of the injured was a Dutch citizen. All the victims were killed inside the university building. Some dead He was My fellow students The perpetrator, who was a student at Charles University, is allegedly from a village near Prague He legally owned the weapons While he did not have any criminal record, according to police. In fact, according to Czech media, 24-year-old David Kozak had equipment to block people from entering and exiting the building and kill as many as possible. Of course, as was announced yesterday and according to the data so far, his victims were random and he opened fire randomly. Part of the weapons are shown in the pictures below.
Hardware found for doors:
“We have fallen into a greater massacre.”
Declaring that there was no longer any danger, the police decided to continue monitoring some sensitive areas, such as schools.
the Police Chief Martin Wodraczyk He previously said the attacker, unknown to police, had a “huge arsenal and ammunition” and that a quick police response prevented further carnage.
They lit candles and left flowers
Hundreds of people, relatives and friends of the victims gathered to leave candles and flowers outside the medieval headquarters of Charles University in central Prague. Among them, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala moved to lay flowers.
December 23 is a day of mourning
The government declared a day of mourning December 23 Czech residents will observe a minute of silence at noon.
According to Martin Vodrasek, the police began searching for the student before the attack after his father was found dead in the village of Huston, west of Prague.
The police chief said that the attacker “left for Prague saying that he wanted to kill himself.”
The police searched the building of the School of Fine Arts, where the attacker was supposed to attend a lesson, but he eventually headed to the main building next to the school in the historic center of Prague.
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Everything was done within 20 minutes
The police learned of the armed attack 15.00 GMT He immediately developed an intervention force.
Twenty minutes laterthe the criminal is found dead.
Citing the results of an investigation on social media, the police chief said the attacker was inspired by “a similar incident in Russia,” without going into details.
He killed a father and his daughter while they were walking
Martin Vodrasek also said that 24-year-old David Kozak killed a young man and his daughter in her stroller while they were walking in a forest on the eastern outskirts of Prague on December 15.
The investigation reached a dead end until evidence found in Houston allowed the two crimes to be linked.
Prime Minister Peter Fiala said: “Nothing can justify this horrific act,” offering his condolences to the families of the victims.
United States President Joe Biden expressed his condolences and described it as a senseless act.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, French President Emmanuel Macron, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also expressed their condolences.
According to Viet Rakosan, There is no connection between the attack and “international terrorism” And the culprit He acted aloneHe described the attack as deliberate.
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