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12/21/2023
The government has declared December 23 a day of mourning for the victims of Thursday's tragic shooting incident at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. Bells will toll around the country at midday on Saturday and a minute of silence will be held in memory of the victims.
Following a late-night government session on Thursday, Prime Minister Petr Fiala emphasized that the shooting incident, in which 14 people were killed and 25 injured, was the work of a deranged individual and was not linked to international terrorism.
The late-night cabinet session was attended by President Petr Pavel who expressed condolences to the families of the victims and thanked the emergency forces for their good work in responding to the crisis. The president appealed to people not to abuse the tragic incident for political goals, to attack the police or to spread misinformation. “What we need in the face of this tragedy is piety, restraint and solidarity,” the president said.
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12/21/2023
The shooting at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague could be related to the brutal murder of a father and his two-month-old daughter in Klánovice on the eastern edge of Prague on Friday, Police President Martin Vondrášek said at a press conference on Thursday. According to Mr. Vondrášek, police are working with the version that the shooter was also responsible for the killing.
He also said there was a huge arsenal of weapons and ammunition in the faculty’s building on Jan Palach square, where the mass shooting took place. Had it not been for the quick action of the police, the casualties would have been much higher, he said.
Speaking at the press conference, Interior Minister Vít Rakušan praised the work of the police and called on people to share only verified information.
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12/21/2023
Thursday’s shooting at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University was neither international terrorism nor the act of an organised group, Prime Minister Petr Fiala told reporters on Thursday. At the moment, it appears that was the act of a lone gunman, he said.
The Czech Prime Minister said the security forces have assured him that they have the situation fully under control and that there is no danger to citizens. He also asked everyone to cooperate with the police and follow their instruction.
In reaction to the fatal shooting, Mr Fiala has called an emergency meeting of the government on Thursday evening.
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12/21/2023
Condolences have been pouring in from EU leaders and foreign heads of state and government in reaction to the tragic shooting incident in Prague.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she was “shocked by the senseless violence of the shooting and expressed her deepest condolences to the families of the victims and to the Czech people. European Council President Charles Michel wrote on X that such violence should have no place in our society.
Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Ruttte or Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni also expressed sympathies.
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12/21/2023
Fourteen people were killed and 25 injured, ten of them seriously, in a shooting at Charles University's Faculty of Arts in Prague on Thursday afternoon.
The incident happened at around three o’clock at the faculty’s main building on Jan Palach Square in the city centre. The gunman, who began shooting on the fourth floor of the building, later committed suicide.
The identity of the shooter has not yet been confirmed, but the suspect is a 24-year-old student of the faculty from the village of Hostouň in central Bohemia, whose father was found dead earlier on Thursday. According to the police, he was inspired by a similar case abroad.
Interior Minister Vít Rakušan said that a large number of weapons had been found at the faculty and the number of victims could have been much higher without a quick police response.
The wounded were transported to several Prague hospitals, which activated a special emergency plan to be able to deal with the large number of patients.
The incident was the worst fatal shooting in the country’s modern history.
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12/21/2023
The Board of the Czech National Bank on Thursday cut the base interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 6.75 percent. It is the first change in the interest rate since June 2022 and the first change the CNB has made under the leadership of Governor Aleš Michl. According to analysts, the development of the economy, which is stagnating, speaks in favour of such move.T
hursday‘s decision by the Czech National Bank’s Board marks the end of the longest period without an interest rate change since 2017, the year which saw the end of an almost five-year period when the base rate remained unchanged at 0.05 percent. Since 2017, the Board has changed rates at least once a year.
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12/21/2023
Friday will be mostly cloudy with rain and snow showers and day temperatures expected to range between 1 and 5 degrees Celsius.
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12/21/2023
Czechia has seen one of the steepest increases in card payments in Europe, according to an analysis by the Boston Consulting Group.
With 235 card payments per capita in 2023, Czechia has reached Europe’s average, while ten years ago, it was one of the countries with the lowest number of such payments.
According to the analysis, Czechs will make an average 560 payments per capita in 2030, making Czechia one of the top ten countries in Europe in terms of card payments per person.
Over the past ten years, the number of card payments in Czechia has grown at the sixth fastest rate in Europe and according to predictions, in the next seven years, the growth will be the fifth fastest.
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12/21/2023
Billionaire Pavel Tykač has become the new owner of Slavia Prague. According to the news website Seznam Zprávy, he signed a deal on Thursday with the Chinese CITIC Group, which owned the club for five years. Before that, the club was owned by another Chinese company, CEFC.
The price for the sale of Slavia is unknown, but it is estimated at about CZK two billion. The transaction also includes the Fortuna Arena in Eden. The 21-time league champion will continue to be led by Jaroslav Tvrdík, while Tykač will head the supervisory board.
Mr. Tykač, who is 59, is the fourth richest Czech with a fortune of CZK 183.3 billion, according to the October issue of Forbes magazine.
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12/21/2023
Some CZK 2.5 million were raised in this year’s War Veterans Day collection, which is CZK 600,000 more than in the previous year, the Ministry of Defence said on Thursday. The money will be used to help those in need within the Military Solidarity Fund.
The fund was established in 2015 to help war veterans cope with unexpected life situations and support the relatives of deceased or injured soldiers. The impetus for its launch was the death of five Czech soldiers in Afghanistan as a result of a suicide bomber attack in July 2014.
This year, the fund has so far helped ten soldiers and their families, according to the ministry.
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