It’s appalling, said the disgusted judge and gave the shooter from Prague a life sentence
“We have no doubt that it was the defendant. The witness recognized him, he described him here at the main trial,” said judge Kamil Kydalka about the most serious of the acts. “We have an eyewitness here. The witness was right in the office when the defendant, when the victim asked what he needed, pulled out a pistol and fired. Despite quick help, the victim unfortunately died,” added the judge.
“I have not experienced something so appalling, disgusting in my practically twenty-five years in the judiciary. Something shocking. That motive, that motive, is something so horrible, so reprehensible,” added the judge. According to the verdict, Dvořák committed the murder because the official did not grant him unemployment benefits in 2016.
The court had no doubt that Dvořák was the perpetrator of the other accused acts (attempted murder, attempted grievous bodily harm, illegal arming).
“I am innocent,” declared the man on trial for the murder of a woman at the employment office in Prague
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The charge of bodily harm related to an incident in which Dvořák was supposed to have injured a former work colleague of the mixture. “At the hearing in June, the defendant stated that he was the one who ran away and that it was revenge for some kind of incident years ago,” the judge mentioned, pointing to numerous CCTV footage from the crime scene. “So from the point of view of proof, there is nothing to solve,” he added.
“Obviously the sentence imposed is the most severe that can be imposed in this country. Such a person has nothing to do in a normal decent society,” stated Kydalka briefly regarding the imposed punishment.
Dvořák shouted at the judge
By imposing a life sentence, the court complied with the proposal of public prosecutor Markéta Pánková, according to which the conditions for imposing an extraordinary sentence were met, while in her closing speech she mentioned the premeditation, insidiousness and brutality of Dvořák’s actions.
Part of the punishment is also the obligation to pay a total of over four million crowns to survivors and victims.
If the verdict is final, Dvořák would become the 48th person sentenced to life in the Czech Republic.
Dvořák disrupted Monday’s hearing by swearing at all parties, he also shouted at the judge, who had him removed from the courtroom three times during the day due to his behavior. In her closing speech, Dvořák’s defense attorney Soňa Adamová objected to judge Kamil Kydalek and the conduct of the main trial.
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Jiří Dvořák in court
“The court in the framework of the ‘proving’ carried out is based on the fact that my client came, saw, came out. He came, he saw, he encountered. He came, he saw, he shot,” Adamová declared, adding that, unlike the prosecutor, she is not convinced that the conditions for imposing a life sentence have been met.
“It is as if I were defending a traffic accident where the client would claim that the brakes were faulty, and it would not be proven whether this was the case or not,” Adamová added, concluding that, according to her, it is impossible to make a decision based on the current state of the facts.
Experts: He wants to continue taking justice into his own hands
Dvořák was quite brief in his closing speech. “If I were to give a closing speech to this corrupt court, it would be in one sentence: ‘It’s the same as if I were throwing pearls to swine.'” To the judge’s claim that he had the right to the so-called last word, Dvořák replied: “Thank you, I’ve already vomited .”
On Monday, experts from the field of psychology and psychiatry testified at the court, who stated that Dvořák is, and especially at the time of the criminal act, mentally sound and sane.
“We did not detect any forensic mental disorder in the defendant that would reduce control or recognition abilities in relation to the case at hand,” said psychiatrist Monika Holečková.
According to experts, Dvořák has a mixed personality disorder, is paranoid, narcissistic, suffers from delusions, is convinced of his own uniqueness, his good character and his own character and the uncharacteristic behavior of others. However, protective treatment is said to be pointless in such cases.
“We fear the possibility of a similar illegal act being repeated,” added Holečková, however. According to reports, Dvořák is convinced of the right to take justice into his own hands.
When Dvořák was given the opportunity to ask questions of the expert, she began to yell at her in a somewhat streetwise way: “How can such a ksindl afford to eliminate an engineer with thirty-five years of experience (meaning Dvořák himself) on the basis of an instruction from a brush?”
The judge, after several warnings to behave decently – to which Dvořák responded: “Don’t shout at me, you’re in court!!” – let him be taken away from one thing. In the same way, Dvořák was brought out after a similar extempore during the questioning of one of the witnesses.
“I am innocent,” declared the man on trial for the murder of a woman at the employment office in Prague
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Dvořák shot dead an employee of the Labor Office in Prague 2 last year on June 29. Dvořák entered the office and without warning, without giving the woman any way to defend herself, pulled out a pistol and shot her in the stomach. The woman died of her injuries a week later. Dvořák was caught by the police in the center of Prague after a few hours. In the past, Dvořák had already threatened to attack those who had been shot in writing due to non-grant of benefits.
Dvořák is also charged with attempted murder. According to the indictment, in the apartment in Prague’s Libni, which he was renting and which he demolished in the final out of revenge against the housemates, because it had spread, he installed baiting devices. Three days before the shooting at the employment office, he injured a policeman who broke into the apartment while searching for Dvořák.
He shot an employee of the labor office, the police ended the investigation and proposed an indictment
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To make matters worse, four days before the shooting at the Labor Office, Dvořák doused an Aero worker and a former colleague with a sulfur mixture in the parking lot of Aero Vodochody in Odolená Voda. According to witnesses, it was also a revenge attack. Either he believed he was to blame for his release or he was disgusted. However, the woman rejected his declaration of love.
He burned the woman on three percent of her body and is charged with attempted grievous bodily harm. “The victim deserved the police!” Dvořák declared in court on Monday.