Case of Chrastava shooter to continue

A request by Pavel Vondrouš, who shot former president Václav Klaus with an air gun last September, for criminal prosecution against him to be dropped has been rejected. The Liberec state prosecutor, Ivan Bernátek, said he sees no reason to suspend the investigation or downgrade the case to an infraction. The 26-year old defendant says that he shot Mr Klaus in the town of Chrastava with the non-lethal weapon to show that politicians in this country do not listen to regular citizens.