Prague, lifeless body of killer’s father found. The notice on Telegram

He walked through the corridors of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the Charles IV University of Prague, opening fire on students and teachers, who tried to save themselves by jumping out of the windows or barricading themselves in the classrooms. The death toll in the bloodiest shooting in the history of the Czech Republic is 15 dead and 24 injured, some of them in serious condition. A massacre whose culprit was identified as 24-year-old philosophy student David Kozak. The alarm in the building overlooking Jan Palach square, in the historic center of the Czech capital, went off in the afternoon. The teaching staff was then evacuated. When the killer saw the police arriving, he committed suicide.

During his academic training, he obtained a bachelor’s degree in historical-European studies and a master’s degree in history, with an emphasis on Poland. But it was death that seemed to fascinate him more than anything else. “Let me introduce myself, my name is David and I want to attack a school and then commit suicide”, he wrote a few days ago on Telegram. “I always wanted to kill, I thought that in the future I would become a maniac”, we read in his last messages, “then, when Ilnaz Galyaiev blew up his school, I realized that it was much more advantageous to commit mass murders than serial ones”. The reference is to the 19-year-old young man who killed 9 people at his school in Kazan, Russia, in 2021. “The last push”, as Kozak himself defined it, however, was given to him by Alina Afanaskina, a 14-year-old teenager. year-old who a few months ago shot a classmate at a school in Bryansk, also in Russia. “I saw Alina’s action in my dream,” wrote the 24-year-old, “it was as if she had come from the heaven to my aid at the right time.”

It therefore appears that Kozak had no connection with international terrorism, as was also confirmed by the Czech Minister of the Interior, Vit Rakusan, one of the first to arrive at the scene of the shooting. Suspicion fell on him after reporting to the authorities the violent death of a man, born in 1968, in a city in central Bohemia. In this case, the police were looking for a young man born in 1999. This young man would be Kozak himself, and the man found dead would be his father, perhaps dead before carrying out the massacre. Kozak’s father was found dead yesterday morning. This was stated by police chief Martin Vondrasek. The man was found dead in Hostoun, in the central district of Kladensk, in central Bohemia. Previously, the police had made it known that they were looking for a young man from 1999 in connection with the violent death of a man born in 1968 that occurred in the region.