“The first incident happened at midnight on August 9-10. A suspicious 32-year-old man from Olomouc repeatedly called the police emergency line 158 from an apartment in one of Novojičín’s prefabricated houses, where he claimed that he would run for petrol and set fire to the whole Dvořáková Street in Nový Jičín, “said regional police spokesman René Černohorský.
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Helicopter house fire
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He added that the man was detained by the police shortly after one o’clock in the morning. As the police measured almost 2.7 per mille of alcohol in his breath, he was taken to a detention center in Frýdek-Místek for sobering up. “There was no damage to property, no one was injured,” a police spokesman warned.
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The second case also happened in Nový Jičín, on the afternoon of August 11, at one of the houses on Žižkova Street. This time, a 55-year-old man verbally attacked a group of people. The cause of his upset was the loss of the wheel covers of his car. “The man threatened these people with the words: Don’t fuck with me, otherwise I will set you all on fire like in Bohumín. He pointed to the adjacent houses. There was no damage to property here either and no one was injured, “Černohorský specified.
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Police are still investigating both acts. “We call on the public to be aware of the danger of such conduct, which is illegal and may result in criminal prosecution,” a police spokesman stressed.
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On Saturday, August 8, in Bohumín, 11 people, including three children, died in a fire in an apartment on the 11th floor of a panel house. It was an arson attack due to family disagreements. Three other people who survived the tragic fire take care of the Ostrava University Hospital.
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