Prague’s Arts Faculty partly reopens for first time since mass shooting

Charles University’s main Faculty of Arts building in Prague, the site of a mass shooting in December, partly reopened to students and staff on Friday.

Dubbed a “pre-opening” of the institution, it was an informal gathering that allowed the students and faculty members to enter the building in the downtown area without attending a lecture or due to some other obligation. The summer semester is set to begin at the Faculty of Arts on Monday.

On December 14 people were killed and two dozen injured when a student went on a shooting spree at the building, days after he had murdered a man and his baby daughter in a wooded area near Prague.