Does a letter by the Prague university gunman in which he confessed to an earlier double murder, found in his booby-trapped house, prove that the police framed him for that crime? No, that's not true: The police confirmed to Lead Stories that the gunman had confessed to killing an infant and her father days before the mass shooting at Charles University, in the Czech capital, in December 2023, and that there were two copies of the confession: A digital one, found in the home of the gunman, and a physical copy, which he had with him during the shooting at the university.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on TikTok, published by @radka0673 on December 27, 2023. The text on the TikTok, translated from Czech into English by Lead Stories staff, reads:
Let's summarize this. The same murderer who wanted to blow up [his] house, which means [that he] wanted it to burn down, left a suicide note there... Okay, I've been saying from the beginning that they're going to pin [the] Klanovice [murders] on him, and this proves it.
This is what the post on TikTok looked like at the time of writing:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken on Mon Jan 22 15:14 2024 UTC)
The Denik N news website (archived here), citing a police spokesman, first reported on December 27, 2023, that a letter had been found in which the gunman - who on December 21, 2023, killed 14 people and injured 25 at Charles University before committing suicide - had confessed to having also murdered a 32-year-old father and his two-month-old daughter in a forest in the Klanovice district on the outskirts of Prague on December 15, 2023. The report said that the police discovered the letter in the gunman's home. According to a news report (archived here) from December 23, 2023, the police also found a homemade explosive device in the house, prompting social media users to speculate on why the shooter would have left a confession there, in a place that he wanted to destroy, with some hinting that the police had framed him for the previous double murder. Examples of these posts on TikTok are here and here (archived here and here).
