Incident in which youths held air gun above square visited by president treated as disorderly conduct

Police are treating as disorderly conduct an incident in which two youths were caught with an air rifle above a square where Czech President Václav Klaus was on a visit, the news site idnes.cz reported. The incident occurred on Monday last week when the president was in the Moravian city of Olomouc. The youths, who were both 19, said they had wanted to use the sight of the air rifle in order to see Mr Klaus better from the roof of an apartment building. They removed the sight, which one used to observe the president while the other waved the air rifle about. The two have described their actions as stupid and childish. They might have been shot by police snipers under different circumstances and a police spokesperson said their irresponsible behaviour had chiefly been a danger to themselves.