{"id":1187,"date":"2019-01-15T06:48:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T05:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/czechpoints.com\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2019-07-11T16:38:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T14:38:57","slug":"pensioner-jailed-for-terror-attacks-on-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/czechpoints.com\/pensioner-jailed-for-terror-attacks-on-trains\/","title":{"rendered":"Pensioner jailed for terror attacks on trains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jaromir Balda, 71, left messages at the scene proclaiming &#8220;Allahu Akbar&#8221; &#8211; or &#8220;God is great&#8221; in Arabic.<\/p>\n<p>Two passenger trains hit the trees, but nobody was injured.<\/p>\n<p>On top of his conviction, the court ordered psychiatric treatment for the far-right sympathiser. He said he hoped to spread fear of Muslim migrants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did not want to commit terror, I wanted to resist it,&#8221; he reportedly told the regional court in Prague.<\/p>\n<p>Balda also said he was confused by blood pressure medication he was taking.<\/p>\n<p>The retired electrician left the trees on tracks near the city of Mlada Boleslav, about 30 miles (50km) north of Prague in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Nine passengers were on board the first train, while the second &#8211; with six passengers and three staff &#8211; hit the tree at 80km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>An expert reportedly said it was lucky the trains did not derail.<\/p>\n<p>The notes he left at the scene of the crime suggested future attacks on Czech soil and called for violence against &#8220;Czech unbelieving dogs&#8221;,\u00a0<a class=\"story-body__link-external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.novinky.cz\/krimi\/493982-chtel-jsem-udelat-vyzvu-jako-palach-tvrdi-duchodce-obzalovany-z-teroristickeho-utoku-na-vlak.html\">news website Novinky.cz reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Local media pointed out the irony of an elderly Czech man seemingly radicalised by anti-migrant rhetoric being among the first in the country to be convicted of terror offences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaromir Balda, 71, left messages at the scene proclaiming &#8220;Allahu Akbar&#8221; &#8211; or &#8220;God is great&#8221; in Arabic. 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He said he hoped to spread fear of Muslim migrants. &#8220;I did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pensioner jailed for terror attacks on trains - Czech Points<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/czechpoints.com\/pensioner-jailed-for-terror-attacks-on-trains\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pensioner jailed for terror attacks on trains - Czech Points\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jaromir Balda, 71, left messages at the scene proclaiming &#8220;Allahu Akbar&#8221; &#8211; or &#8220;God is great&#8221; in Arabic. 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