Czech Republic
EQUAL TREATMENT
MURDER PRACTICE
David Kozak, who killed 13 people at a university Thursday, is the prime suspect in an apparently random killing of man and his 2-month-old daughter in a forest last week.
SCARY
The shooter has been described as a student armed with a rifle and scope.
CREEPY
The embassy to the Vatican received animal eyes, and the consulate in the Czech Republic received animal tissue in a bizarre threat.
SWALLOWED BY GRAYNESS
The virus steamrolled into Prague like a column of Soviet tanks, crushing all before it and returning this young democracy to the gloom of the Communist era.
MASKS TO THE WIND
Prague was the poster child for beating COVID-19 in the spring. Then its leaders declared the virus was over.
HELL ON EARTH
Czech filmmaker Václav Marhoul discusses his controversial Holocaust-set drama, why it’s less violent than “Joker,” and how his upcoming Joseph McCarthy movie is a rebuke of Trump.
WET WORKS
The evidence is thin but the precedents are many after a report that a Russian diplomat brought a murderous toxin into the Czech Republic to try to kill two prominent politicians.