Czech Police investigating 60+ cases of approval for the mass murderer at Charles University

The identity of those involved is already known to police in 30 cases. They have posted that information to the X social media network.

“In association with the attack on Charles University’s Faculty of Arts we are following events on social media in relation to the approval of, adoration of and imitation of this horrible crime. As of today we are investigating more than 60 such cases in the Czech Republic and as of now we already know the identity of 30 specific individuals involved,” the police posted.

Detectives in South Moravia tracked down and detained several authors of posts to social media networks during the Christmas holidays. One of them wrote that he intends to shoot up an entertainment center in Brno.

“He was arrested there by security guards and the police officers summoned to the scene took custody of him. He was unarmed and he told the officers that he hadn’t meant what he wrote seriously. Even so, he apparently will not avoid prosecution for spreading a false alarm at a minimum,” the police reported.

A juvenile from Brno also announced similar intentions. Police officers then surprised him at home.

That social media user was also unarmed. The mobile phones of both social media users were confiscated by detectives for the purposes of the criminal proceeding.

The Blansko police are investigating the case of a 51-year-old woman who wrote a message to the operations center on Tuesday evening supporting last Thursday’s attack. “Again, we emphasize that behavior of this kind on social media is quite problematic and the authors of such posts face criminal prosecution,” warned the spokesperson for the South Moravian Regional Police, Pavel Šváb.

In South Bohemia, police officers recorded several cases of people threatening to commit shootings. For example, a 28-year-old man in the Jindřichův Hradec area threatened to shoot up his entire community.

Police officers apprehended that social media user in České Budějovice. “A man from Strakonice threatened to repeat the murder at the university and was tracked down, arrested, and is under investigation,” the police posted to X.

The gunman murdered 13 people last Thursday in the building of Charles University’s Faculty of Arts on Jan Palach Square and a 14th victim of the shooting later passed away in hospital. He injured another 25 people, some of them quite seriously.

According to police, a 24-year-old student at the Faculty of Arts from Central Bohemia committed the mass shooting at the university, and on the basis of ballistics, police have also linked him to the case of the murder of a man and his two-month-old daughter in the Klánovický Forest on the outskirts of Prague on 15 December.