According to the police, Wednesday’s fire in the premises of the Bohnice Psychiatric Hospital was started intentionally, and it was probably started by a patient who died on the spot. The police are investigating the case as a public threat.
According to the police, Wednesday’s fire in the grounds of the Bohnice Psychiatric Hospital in Prague was started intentionally. In the building of the National Institute for Autism (NAUTIS), it was probably founded by a man who died on the spot. According to the station ČT24, it was a patient, writes TASR reporter.
The spokesman of the Prague police, Jan Rybanský, said that the police had started criminal proceedings on suspicion of committing a crime of general threat. If the version that the fire was started by his victim is confirmed, the case will be postponed, he added.
The cause of the fire
The director of NAUTIS, Magdalena Šubrt Thorová, already admitted on Wednesday on the broadcast of the ČT24 station that a deceased person is behind the fire. “He got into some discomfort, probably a panic attack, because his tape recorder broke down. At that moment, our assistants were attacked. The patient started destroying the office equipment. The assistants withdrew and at that moment there was a fire,” the director described the situation.
Evacuation and intervention of firefighters
Firefighters reported on the intervention on Wednesday at 2:23 p.m. on the X social network, about ten minutes later they wrote that they had already extinguished the fire and were ventilating the smoky areas. Before their arrival, 16 people managed to evacuate the building. On the spot, they found one person who inhaled fumes and died despite attempts to revive him.
