- Title: CZECH-SHOOTING/NEIGHBOUR Neighbour of Czech shooter says gunman rarely left house
- Date: 24th February 2015
- Summary: UHERSKY BROD, CZECH REPUBLIC (FEBRUARY 24, 2015) (REUTERS) (NIGHT SHOTS) STREET WHERE MAN WHO SHOT EIGHT PEOPLE LIVES PEOPLE IN STREET TELEVISION SATELLITE TRUCK PEOPLE STANDING IN STREET NEIGHBOUR OF MAN WHO SHOT EIGHT PEOPLE, ALENA FYBRTOVA, SPEAKING TO JOURNALISTS (SOUNDBITE) (Czech) NEIGHBOUR OF MAN WHO SHOT EIGHT PEOPLE, ALENA FYBRTOVA, SAYING: "He was probably feeling that people were hurting or attacking him all the time, but this was not true. His wife caused problems here. She was verbally attacking neighbours. He was always inside, he didn't go out very often. His reaction surprised us very much. Now we are afraid of what his wife will do, how she will react to the death of her husband." PEOPLE ON STREET TELEVISION SATELLITE TRUCK CORDONED OFF STREET
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- Location: Czech Republic
- Country: Czech Republic
- Topics: General
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- Story Text: The neighbour of a man who shot dead eight people in a Czech restaurant on Tuesday (February 24) said the gunman rarely left his home.
The man fired about 25 rounds as people were eating lunch in the Druzba (Friendship) restaurant in a residential district of Uhersky Brod, a normally quiet town 300 km (180 miles) southeast of Prague. He then killed himself. It is the worst peacetime shooting in the country's history, officials said.
Alena Fybrtova says she is a neighbour of the gunman.
"He was probably feeling that people were hurting or attacking him all the time, but this was not true. His wife caused problems here. She was verbally attacking neighbours. He was always inside, he didn't go out very often. His reaction surprised us very much. Now we are afraid of what his wife will do, how she will react to the death of her husband," she said.
The interior minister said the attack was done by an "insane murderer" and was not an act of terrorism.
The restaurant's owner, Pavel Karlik, said the man had walked in and started shooting with a handgun.
A woman wounded in the shooting was taken to hospital.
Mass shootings are very rare in the Czech Republic, a country of 10.5 million. National police chief Tomas Tuhy said the incident was the worst on record.
Uhersky Brod is a town of 17,000 in the Moravia region, near the border with Slovakia. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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