Man gets two years in jail for threatening to poison town’s water supply

A court has sentenced a 51-year-old man from Plzeň, west Bohemia, to two years in prison for scaremongering and attempted bribery. The man called the town hall threatening to poison the town’s water supplies with the toxic chemical sarin unless he was given five million crowns. The threat launched a large-scale security operation involving the police, firefighters and the town’s waterworks. The man was handed a sentence at the low-end of the scale after expressing deep regret and saying he had been very drunk when he made the call.