Zdeněk Ryšavý

<p>The Regional Court in Ústí nad Labem has sentenced 37-year-old Petr Benda to 12.5 years in prison for shooting a Romani man dead behind the wheel of a van in Chomutov last spring. The court ruled that the van posed no danger to anybody at the time of the shooting.</p>
<p>News server Romea.cz will update this story as details become available.</p>


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