Rakušan for cancellation of municipal fireworks after Prague mass killing

The minister of the interior, Vít Rakušan, has asked mayors of municipalities in Czechia not to organise fireworks displays for New Year’s Eve in view of the recent mass shooting at a Prague university. Mr. Rakušan also called on members of the public to limit their use of pyrotechnics this year.

Fourteen people were killed when a student went on a shooting rampage at Charles University’s Faculty of Arts on December 21. He had earlier shot dead a man and his baby daughter in woodlands near Prague.