PRAGUE – A court in the Czech Republic has given a six-month suspended sentence to a man for shooting at the country's president with an air pistol that fires plastic pellets.
Pavel Vondrous has been convicted of hooliganism on Thursday, according to Judge Lukas Korpas at a court in the northern city of Liberec.
The incident happened Sept. 28 in the northern town of Chrastava where President Vaclav Klaus was opening a new bridge.
Vondrous opened fire from close range while the president's bodyguards failed to intervene immediately. Klaus escaped with a minor bruise. His bodyguards initially let Vondrous go and he was arrested minutes later by police.
The 26-year-old Vondrous later said he wanted to punish Klaus for what he perceives to be the bad situation in the country.
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