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12/30/2023
The Prague Faculty of Arts is organizing a month of special events that are to help students and teachers come to terms with the tragic shooting that left 14 people dead and 25 injured on December 21. The various activities, many of which will take place on Jan Palach Square where the faculty is located, are being planned together with student organizations. The first event will be a candlelight procession in memory of the victims on January 4. The main faculty building on the square, which was the scene of the horrific act, will remain closed until the end of January. The sea of candles which people have been lighting both in front of the faculty and Charles University’s main headquarters Karolinum will be used to create a memorial for a later memorial site, organizers said.
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12/29/2023
Saturday should be partly cloudy and dry with day temperatures between 5 and 9 degrees Celsius.
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12/29/2023
Prague City Hall will not organize New Year's fireworks or a video mapping show this year, a spokesman for the municipality reported. Instead people will get admission for free (or a symbolic price) to Prague Zoo, the Botanical Gardens, Prague towers and a number of other institutions on January 1. Visitors will be asked to present a public transport card or ID to prove that they live in Prague. In view of the recent tragedy at the Faculty of Arts many Czech cities have scrapped their plans for fireworks displays or other boisterous celebrations. Fireworks will not be held in Prague, Brno and Olomouc, among others, on the other hand, Ostrava, Zlín and Plzeň will hold them as planned.
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12/29/2023
Since taking office in March, President Petr Pavel received requests from 76 Czechs to be allowed to fight for Ukraine in its war against Russia. He granted special permission to do so to 20 people, Czech Radio reported citing information from the Office of the President. Pavel's predecessor, Miloš Zeman, received 477 requests and granted 132 permits. Czech Radio said it is not clear how many Czechs actually went to fight in Ukraine. Service in foreign armed forces is prohibited by law for Czechs.
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12/29/2023
The General Inspectorate of the Security Forces (GIBS) is looking into the police intervention at the Prague Faculty of Arts and is analysing the crisis response of the police and special units, a spokesman for the force confirmed on Friday. According to him, this is normal procedure in serious cases and the results of the inspection should be available by mid-January. There has been some criticism of the crisis response on social media, where some people argue that the police may have underestimated the situation and lost valuable time.
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12/29/2023
A new gun law currently being debated in the lower house should give doctors access to the country’s central weapons register. This would enable them to check whether their patients hold a firearms licence. At present applicants for a license need to undergo a health check but it is at doctors’ own discretion whether an applicant must undergo a psychological evaluation as well.
The new law should also contain a list of illnesses that preclude gun ownership. It recently emerged that the gunman who killed 14 people and injured 25 at the Prague Faculty of Arts had been treated for mental problems.
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12/29/2023
Interior Minister Vít Rakušan has condemned the words of Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) MP Jiří Kobza, who in a statement on Facebook blamed the shooting on the "elite progressive education" of Charles University's Faculty of Arts. He wrote, among other things, that the shooter wasn't an agent of Putin, a supporter of the SPD or a conservative, but a product of this "inclusive progressive education", and the obvious question to ask was what kind of indoctrination programme of hate is actually being taught there.
In a statement on X, formerly Twitter, the interior minister wrote in response that what Mr. Kobza wrote was "outrageous" and called on people not to abuse the tragedy by attacking the very group of people who were the target of last week's violence.
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12/29/2023
The number of places in Czechia under flood alert was down to 24 early on Friday morning, the Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute said on its website. Water levels are steady or falling. The highest level flood warning only remains in place for three spots on the lower reaches of the Elbe River. Water levels in the Vltava in Český Krumlov rose again in the morning to a level 3 flood alert, after dropping just below it overnight.
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12/28/2023
The Faculty of Arts building on Prague’s Jan Palach Square, which last week became the site of the worst mass shooting in Czechia since World War II, will remain closed until at least the end of January, Charles University has announced. The precise date the building will reopen is still yet to be decided.
Information about the new school term and other organisational matters at Charles University's Faculty of Arts will be conveyed to staff and students on Friday at the latest. Teaching should resume as normal at other faculties, although the university has said it recommends a "sensitive approach" given the recent tragic events.
Fourteen people were killed and 25 were injured in the attack at Charles University’s Faculty of Arts on December 21.
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12/28/2023
Information about the new school term and other organisational matters at Charles University's Faculty of Arts will be conveyed to staff and students on Friday at the latest, the rector of Charles University, Milena Králíčková, has said. No changes are expected at the university's other faculties.
Fourteen people were killed in the attack at Charles University’s Faculty of Arts on December 21, the worst mass shooting in the country’s modern history.
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