President to lay flowers at site of tragedy

President Miloš Zeman will travel to Uherský Brod on Friday to lay flowers at the site of Tuesday’s mass shooting which left eight people, as well as the attacker, dead. The president, who along with the prime minister condemned the attack and offered his condolences to the families of the victims, confirmed the news while meeting with mayors on the occasion of an annual village competition on Wednesday. The president stressed that the attack, unprecedented in scale in the Czech Republic, “could have happened in any village or town”. The suspect in the attack was a lone gunman in his 60s with a possible history of mental problems.

Author: Jan Velinger