Cottage belonging to family of suspect in Vítkov firebombing case destroyed

A fire on Thursday evening destroyed a small cottage in the east of the country belonging to the family of one the suspects in the Vítkov firebombing case. The blaze began shortly after one am and took fire fighters roughly an hour to put out. No one was hurt in the incident; the damage has been estimated at 250 thousand crowns. News website Novinky quoted the mother of suspect Václav Cojocar - one of four people charged with last year’s attack in Vítkov – as saying the fire was retaliation for her son. He and three others have been charged with racially-motivated attempted murder, suspected of having thrown Molotov cocktails into a Romany family home in Vítkov that left a two-year-old girl with severe burns and possibly lifelong trauma. Officials have not yet determined the cause of the fire at the family cottage.