Police in Slovakia say they have arrested a man in the northern town of Zilina who threatened to stage a mass murder similar to what happened in Prague on Thursday, BBC reports.
The 64-year-old man called the emergency services and said he intended to do “what happened in Prague”. He was detained by police immediately afterwards. He now faces prosecution for spreading a general alarm, which carries a maximum penalty of two years in prison.
On Thursday, a student opened fire at a Prague university, killing 14 people. Czech police arrested several people after the shooting.
On the evening of the same day, a man called emergency services to report that he wanted to purchase a gun so he could carry out a similar massacre. Another man was arrested after threatening to kill surviving family members of the gunman. Police said a legally owned gun was found in his home in the Vysocina region southeast of Prague.
Police were called to the village in the western Pilsen region on Friday evening after the man threatened to shoot his neighbours. He was immediately arrested, however it later transpired he was drunk and unarmed.
On Friday evening, an armed response team went to Prague’s busy IP Pavlova intersection after reports of a man with a grenade in his hands. Pyrotechnics experts called to the scene said the weapon was an imitation. Two men, described by media as foreigners, were arrested. Tram and car traffic was temporarily halted.
On Saturday evening, Prague Airport Terminal 2 was briefly evacuated after an “English-speaking man” called police to report that five bombs had been planted at the airport. The terminal was reopened after being checked for explosives.
