Drunk man attacks passersby and kicks police officer in Prague

In the early hours of October, at around five in the morning, police detained a 29-year-old foreigner in central Prague who had attacked passersby on Republic Square for no reason and then kicked a police officer. Tests showed his blood alcohol level was above two per mille.

A Prague 1 patrol responded to a call on Republic Square: according to the callers, an unknown man had been attacking random passersby, who managed to fight him off and reported the incident. The officers got a description of the aggressor and the direction he had gone from the victims, and set off in pursuit. A few hundred metres away, on Králodvorská street, they spotted a man matching the description: he was swearing at everyone he met and making obscene gestures at passing drivers.

“When one of the officers approached him and demanded, ‘in the name of the law,’ that he stop his unlawful behaviour, the aggressor turned around and immediately kicked him in the ribs,” police spokesman Richard Hrdina said.

Despite fierce resistance, the officers detained the man using force. An alcohol test showed more than two per mille. But even after his arrest he did not calm down: on the way to the station he shouted at the officers and threatened them. “He demanded that his handcuffs be removed so that he could beat them up,” the police spokesman added.

The man is suspected of hooliganism and violence against a public official. If convicted, he faces up to four years in prison.

Around Prague, based on reporting by novinky.cz