The juvenile, whose police accused of double murder on Thursday in the event of an attack in Hradec Králové, confessed to the crime. Investigator Roman Popiolek said this on Friday. In his words, it was probably a loner who made his fantasy ideas
“As far as the motive is concerned, it was not found to be connected to a religious or extremist group,” Popiolek said. The information available to the police so far suggests that it was an individual’s act.
“We are checking that it was a type of loner loner who lived in his virtual fantasy world and, unfortunately, he made his fantasy ideas. He chose a random goal where there was a random victim,” the investigator said.
In addition to the perpetrator, the police have already listened to witnesses of the event and begins to listen to persons around the juvenile. According to Popiolk, the investigation was also invited by experts from the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology.
The criminalist added that the youthful lived in an incomplete family with his mother, graduated only for elementary school and does not show interest in further studies or work. He has not had a record in the criminal register yet.
On Thursday morning in the shopping zone in Hradec played in one of the stores, a 16-year-old Bohemia with a knife for two saleswoman aged 19 and 38. According to the police, he attacked gradually, attacked one directly in the store and the other in the background. Both later, despite the efforts of rescuers who resuscitated them for almost 45 minutes, succumbed to injuries.
Police accused the juvenile on Thursday evening, the proposal to take his custody is going to file on Friday, then the court will decide. If he is guilty, he faces a ten -year sentence.
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Selection chronology of knife attacks in the Czech Republic since 2018
2018
11. July – The Czech police intervened in Prachovice in the Chrudi district, where the attacker stabbed two people with a knife. According to Prima, the nephew of the well -known recidivist Jiří Kajínka was attacked and the victim was, in addition to an adult man, a two -year -old child.
2020
16th January -A 71-year-old patient began to harm self-harm in the hospital in the Central Bohemian town of Slaný after two days of hospitalization and threatened health professionals with a knife in his hand. The hospital security is shot by a gun.
30 January – The man armed with two knives and telescopic batons tried to enter the building of the Czech Chamber of Deputies at the time of the ongoing meeting of the lower chamber of the Czech Parliament. He attacked one of the guards, the police then managed to spacify him.
8th February -The attacker, a 21-year-old Slovak, attacked a 47-year-old man on the tram with a knife on Českomoravska Street in Prague. The attacked man ended up with injuries in the hospital.
18. March – Prague cops defeated a man who attacked people in the tram. The suspect did not want to calm down and attacked the intervening cops who spacified him with a shot to the thigh.
2021
1. december – Czech Prime Minister in the resignation of Andrej Babiš wanted to attack an armed man. He came to the gatehouse of the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic with a gun and a knife where he was detained.
2022
31. March – The student of the school in Prague’s district Michle killed the teacher’s machete. The perpetrator fled the crime scene, but the police managed to catch him in the district of Kschúslav.
2023
20. december – At the Secondary Technical School in Třebíč, the student attacked a school employee with a knife and easily injured it.
2024
19. June – Six people attacked the attacker on Argentine Street in Prague’s Holešovice district. The two injured after the knife attack was taken over by the rescuers. The police detained the man on the spot.
3. september – One of the pupils of the elementary school in Domažlice in the Pilsen region attacked a knife on her classmates, injuring two children.
