(22 Dec 2023)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Prague - 22 December 2023
1. Police officials arriving at news conference
2. Police showing bodycam video
3. SOUNDBITE (Czech) Petr Matějček, Director of the Police Regional Directorate of Prague:
"Apart from the intervention inside the building, there had to be an intervention outside the building because the gunman had gotten into the balcony and was handling a long firearm with a scope. Hence, the lives and health of the citizens around that building were at risk. Therefore, simultaneously with the intervention inside the building, there was a perimeter security action going on outside. And even though there were a lot of officers actively deployed, there were three injuries by the gunman on the public roadway as well."
++BLACK FRAMES++
4. SOUNDBITE (Czech) Petr Matějček, Director of the Police Regional Directorate of Prague:
"I would also like to say that throughout the night, there was an ongoing search of the crime scene by the police, identification of the victims and identification of the injured persons. So, if I were to clarify the numbers, there are currently 14 confirmed victim:s from students and other persons, and one gunman has died. So, 15 victims in total. We also have 25 injured persons."
++BLACK FRAMES++
5. SOUNDBITE (Czech) Vojtěch Motyka, Deputy Director of the Prague Police Directorate for the Criminal Police and Investigation Service:
"At 14:59, unfortunately, there was news of a shooting at the Faculty of Arts in Prague, Jan Palach Street. What has already been said here by the regional director: patrols were on the scene within a few minutes. At 15:11, the operational control got information that the suspect was on the roof of the Faculty of Arts. At 15:20, there was documented information that the gunman was eliminated, as already mentioned here in the introduction; he probably shot himself."
++BLACK FRAMES++
6. SOUNDBITE (Czech) Tomáš Kubík, Deputy Commissioner of Police for the Criminal Police and Investigation Service:
"Whether it was the system's or the individual's failure, it would be premature to conclude that at this point because, again, there's not that much information. But either it was the system's or the individual's failure."
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
Czech officials on Friday showed the media bodycam footage of the police operation that was carried out when a gunman shot dead 14 people.
Three foreign nationals were among the 25 people who were wounded when a student opened fire at a university in Prague.
He killed 14 people before killing himself on Thursday, authorities said.
The mass shooting was the worst in Czech history.
Petr Matejcek, the director of the police regional headquarters in Prague said the gunman killed himself at the balcony of the university building when police officers approached him.
The gunman's name has not been released.
Matějček also said that following the shooting police officers continued with a "search of the crime scene by the police, identification of the victims and identification of the injured persons."
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