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Russian acquitted of arson attack on Czech defence minister

PRAGUE, Czech Republic – A Prague court has acquitted a Russian student who was suspected of an arson attack against the house of Czech Defence Minister Martin Stropnicky.

Nobody was injured in the June 7 attack in which four petrol bombs were used.

Judge Blanka Bedrichova from Prague’s Municipal Court said Wednesday there wasn’t sufficient evidence to prove that the suspect was guilty of the arson attack. But he was found guilty of assisting a graffiti painter who wrote anarchist slogans on a jail wall in Prague and was expelled from the country for two years.

The 20-year-old student from Prague’s Charles University had pleaded not guilty. He called the verdict unjust and said he would appeal.

Stropnicky tweeted he acknowledges the verdict.

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