2023-12-27 23:18:00
The shooter acknowledged in a letter his responsibility in the death of a man and his two-month-old baby
The Czech Republic Police reported this Wednesday that the student who last week shot 14 people dead and injured 25 others at a Prague college, and then committed suicide, acknowledged in a letter his responsibility in the death of a man and her two-month-old baby on the outskirts of the capital.
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Police spokesman Jan Danek said that during a search last week at the home of the shooter at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University, in the heart of the Czech capital, a letter was found in the who admitted to having killed these two people a week ago in Klanovice.
“What was the exact content of the letter and other details about the case we cannot say at the moment, because the investigation is still ongoing and, among other things, other people are still being questioned, so we could interrupt future investigations,” the Czech newspaper Deník N. reported.
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Ballistic tests on a firearm found in the house indicated that the student could also have been responsible for this murder in a forest outside Prague.
The crime had shocked Czech society before the Prague shootings on Thursday last week.
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The shooter, who would have acted alone, killed his father just before starting the shooting at this faculty located in Jan Palach Square, after which he committed suicide, according to the first investigations.
A ceremony in honor of those killed in the shooting at Charles University in Prague (Vondrou Roman/CTK/dpa)
He has been identified as a 24-year-old student who had a permit to have firearms and no criminal record. The Police suspect that he acted inspired by another similar event abroad.
Authorities revealed that the only attacker had no criminal record and therefore did not attract the attention of the authorities.
“This type of attack is really difficult to prevent,” said Interior Minister Vit Rakusan.
Police Chief Tomas Vondrasek said officers found an arsenal of weapons with a lot of ammunition that the suspect had to carry unseen to the university building before opening fire.
The Czech Republic can hardly compare to the United States, but its gun laws are considered liberal in Europe after replacing restrictions under the totalitarian communist regime that was overthrown in the 1989 Velvet Revolution.
In 2021, Parliament amended the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms of the Constitution to give people the right to defend themselves or others with a weapon. That measure, adopted after more than 100,000 people signed a petition in support, means the right cannot be limited by a separate law.
In this country of 10.9 million inhabitants, 314,000 people had a license to carry weapons at the end of last year and owned almost a million various weapons.
To obtain a license, people must be Czech residents, be over 21 years old (this does not apply for sports and hunting), be in good health, mentally responsible, trustworthy and have no criminal record. Written and practical tests, including target shooting, are also part of the procedure.
But once a person meets all the requirements, record-keeping authorities do not need to inform police about the number of weapons they have, Ales Strach, a senior Prague police officer, said Friday.
Asked at a news conference how the suspect could have had such a number of weapons, Tomas Kubik, deputy police chief, said: “We will have to find out if it is the result of a system failure or human error.”
(With information from EP and AP)
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