Moravian-Silesian Region, Czechia · Europe
Petřvald sits on the route: 10 minutes from Rychvald, 39km from Pustevny.
Petřvald is in Moravian-Silesian Region, Czechia, with about 7,400 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Rychvald, about 4 km away.
On 8 March 2009, a mass shooting at the Sokol restaurant in Petřvald, Czech Republic. Raif Kačar, a 42-year-old Macedonian national, shot and killed four people who were celebrating a birthday party and then attempted suicide. The motive was personal disputes, and the weapon used, a semi-automatic pistol, was heldRead more
illegally. It was the first mass shooting to occur in the Czech Republic since its independence in 1993.
At about 1:00 a.m., Kačar entered the Sokol restaurant, where ten people in the restaurant were celebrating their fifteenth birthday. Immediately after entering, he began shooting at the occupants. According to police, Kačar executed his victims at the scene. Four people were killed: his ex-girlfriend, her father and mother, and his ex-girlfriend's current boyfriend.
The assailant died of his injuries in hospital in Ostrava four days later, on 12 March 2009.
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Within an hour or so of Petřvald: Pustevny (39 km).
The nearest famous roads are Cervenohorske Sedlo, Zakopianka (Road to the Tatras) and Donovaly Pass.
Petřvald is in Moravian-Silesian Region, Czechia, about 4 km from Rychvald.
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A 1,018 m saddle in the Beskids crowned by Dušan Jurkovič's fairy-tale timber buildings Libušín and Maměnka (1898), a masterwork of folk Art Nouveau. A ridge walk leads to the pagan god statue of Radegast and the Radhošť chapel.
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