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Naturally people are suspicious about the authenticity of this. The worst shooting ever in Czech history. Blaming Russia by way of a couple of Russian shooters taken as a model of inspiration by the young Czech gunman.
Political scientist Vladimir Kornilov:
“While you were sleeping, Russia was already blamed for yesterday’s shooting at Prague University. Look at the headline in The Times: “Czech shooter inspired by girl killer from Russia” (we are talking about the shooting in Bryansk, as you… pic.twitter.com/mYdoH6h5z1
— Victor vicktop55 (@vicktop55) December 22, 2023
‼️Newly released video footage of CZECH SHOOTER in Prague‼️
The shooter was standing up, hiding behind a fence, shooting not only people inside the university but also down the street
He was using gun ZEV 308 Win AR10 pic.twitter.com/v77XL5Y4KS
— Lenka Houskova White (@white_lenka) December 21, 2023
The Czech Republic declared a day of mourning on Dec. 23 to remember the victims of Thursday’s mass shooting in Prague https://t.co/qPxnj7mX3U pic.twitter.com/3tgucogaIU
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 22, 2023
Zerohedge gives decent coverage to the event, noting the mayor of Prague’s reasonable speech about such tragic happenings. See —
Prague Mayor Laments Mass Shootings “Cannot Be Solved Preventively” After Sniper Kills At Least 15
Update(1423ET): Typically after a school shooting or any mass killing incident in the United States, the smoke is not so much as cleared before there are shrill calls from activists and politicians for banning all firearms, or especially assault-style rifles. Within hours, American mainstream media turns such tragedies into an abstract debate over the ability of citizens to keep and bear arms (to quote the second amendment). But Prague Mayor Bohuslav Svoboda had a very different, and more realistic or reasoned response to Thursday’s Prague University shooting, which took the lives of 15, including the killer.
“The thing is, of course, a tragedy, it is a tragedy that occurs in the modern world. We know very well that for a number of years we have been hearing from the United States that there has been an excess of some shooter shooting in a school or on the street or somewhere,” Svoboda said in a press briefing.
“We have always thought that this is a matter that does not concern Europe and us, that this is a matter that is also a given in the United States due to the fact that everyone there is armed, etc.”
“Now, unfortunately, it turns out that our world is also changing and we have the problem of the individual shooter whose reasons for what he does are not entirely clear. And the worst thing about it is that these are things that cannot be solved preventively,” he emphasized.
This logic is even more applicable in the US, where there are literally tens of millions of firearms kept legally in households across the land. However, we don’t expect to hear such down-to-earth discourse in the American mainstream. And interestingly the Prague mayor made such observations within a mere hours of one of the Czech Republic’s worst shootings in its history
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15 killed in Prague university shooting
The killer traveled to the Czech capital after murdering his father earlier on Thursday, police said
RT
A gunman killed 14 people and injured two dozen others in an attack at Charles University in Prague on Thursday, Czech police said. The attacker, identified as a student at the university, was “eliminated” at the scene.
Police officers rushed to the university building at Jan Palach Square in central Prague on Thursday afternoon, where they “eliminated” an active shooter, Police President Martin Vondrasek told reporters.
As the building was evacuated, officers found 14 victims dead and at least 25 more injured, Vondrasek said.
Czech media identified the shooter as 24-year-old David Kozak, a student at the university. Authorities also named the perpetrator as David K. The police chief noted that it was unclear whether officers or the suspect himself fired the bullet that took his life and ended the killing spree.
The killer is suspected of murdering his father in the city of Kladno earlier on Thursday before traveling to Prague, Vondrasek said.
Jan Palach Square and the surrounding streets remain closed to the public until midnight, police said. While media reports suggested that Kozak may have planted explosives at the building, Interior Minister Vit Rakusan told reporters that the public “is not in immediate danger.”
As of Thursday evening, police officers were searching the scene for explosives, the national police force said in a statement on social media.
Thursday’s attack is the worst shooting incident in recent Czech history. While the Czech Constitution guarantees the right to bear arms and use them in self-defense, gun crime is rare, and the country records fewer annual homicides by firearm than France, Australia, and the Netherlands.
Most recently, a man killed six people in a hospital waiting room in the city of Ostrava in 2019 before turning his gun on himself, while eight people were killed in a similar incident at a restaurant in the town of Uhersky Brod in 2015.
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New Prague shooter details emerge
The 24-year-old suspect allegedly laid out his plans in a series of Telegram posts
RT
Czech Police have named the perpetrator of a mass shooting that left 14 people dead in Prague on Thursday. The killer, identified by police as David K., a 24-year-old student, allegedly killed his father in his hometown of Kladno on Thursday before traveling to the Czech capital on a suicide mission.
Czech media later named the shooter as David Kozak and published his picture.
Police President Martin Vondrasek told reporters that Kozak made a number of social media posts prior to his rampage and was “inspired by a similar terrible event abroad,” without revealing further details. The killer was “saying that he wanted to kill himself,” Vondrasek added.
However, Czech media unearthed screenshots from a Telegram account apparently opened by Kozak earlier this month. In a Russian-language post on December 9, Kozak allegedly stated that he would use the platform as a “diary as I move towards [a] school shooting.” In a series of updates on December 10, the poster introduced himself as “David” and said that he “want[s] to do [a] school shooting and possibly suicide,” naming Russian school shooters Alina Afanaskina and Ilnaz Galyaviev as inspiring his killing spree.
🇨🇿‼️🚨 BREAKING: The shooter kept a diary and dreamed about a shooting!
The shooter who opened fire in Prague and killed 10 people, David Kozak. He kept a diary in a telegram channel, in his own words he always dreamed of committing a mass murder, his inspirations were Ilyaz… https://t.co/CrYWz02Eui pic.twitter.com/UDjwhiN6zJ
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) December 21, 2023
“I always wanted to kill, I thought I would become a maniac in the future,” the post read. “Then, when Ilnaz did the shooting, I realized that it was much more profitable to do mass murders than serial ones. Alina became the last point. It was as if she had come to my aid from heaven just in time.”
Kozak was a student at Charles University, police said. According to Czech media, he studied history and won a prize for his undergraduate thesis in 2018.
Police said that Kozak was “eliminated” at the university building where his rampage began. However, it is unclear whether he was struck by a police bullet or whether he turned his gun on himself, Vondrasek noted. Kozak had been spotted wielding a rifle on the roof of the building shortly before his death, and Prague Mayor Bohuslav Svoboda claimed that the shooter fell to his death from this perch.
Police said that Kozak legally owned multiple firearms. Gun ownership is common in the Czech Republic, and the country’s constitution guarantees the right to bear arms and use them in self-defense.
Prague’s Jan Palach Square, where the university building is located, will remain closed to the public until midnight as a police investigation continues.
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It will almost certainly turn out he was on psych meds. The psych meds are always the hidden factor in such bizarre homicidal rampages and the psychiatrist or doctor who prescribed them plus the pharmaceutical companies that make them are accessories