Czech top court rules Prague faculty shooting was not terrorism

The Constitutional Court has confirmed that 2023 December’s mass shooting at Prague’s Faculty of Arts cannot legally be classified as a terrorist attack. Fourteen students and teachers were killed before the gunman took his own life. The court rejected a complaint from the father of one victim, who argued the crime should be labelled terrorism for symbolic and preventive reasons. Investigators found no political or ideological motive, concluding the attacker sought notoriety. The case remains classified as murder. A parliamentary inquiry earlier found no major police failings during the incident.