2023-12-22 22:45:00
Par Albert Kornél
Published 4 hours ago, Updated 1 minute ago
An entrance to the Faculty of Arts in Prague, which has become a place of worship in memory of the victims of the December 21 massacre. CTK/CTK/ABACA
REPORT – A lone gunman killed 13 people at the prestigious Charles University. An unprecedented news item in one of the countries considered to be the safest in Europe.
Budapest
Shock and incomprehension gripped quiet Czechia after a mass killing which left fourteen victims, including the killer, on Thursday in Prague, at Charles University. In the aftermath of the tragedy, local media echo the astonishment which gripped this country of 10 million inhabitants which has never experienced such a mass killing and is renowned for being one of the safest in the world. world. The flags will be at half-mast on Saturday, declared a day of national mourning, a minute of silence will be observed and the bells will ring at noon throughout the country.
According to the emerging scenario, presented by the police during a press conference on Friday morning, David Kozak, 24, killed his father at his home in the Kladno region, in central Bohemia, before taking the road to Prague. There, he opened fire in the Faculty of Arts at Charles University, where he himself was a student, killing thirteen people and injuring twenty-five others, before apparently committing suicide. The institute…
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