“When we found out what had happened, it was a real shock,” says Jean-Charles Berger, a French restaurateur in Prague.

“When we found out what had happened, it was a real shock”, testifies Jean-Charles Berger, French restaurateur in Prague. A shooting left at least 14 dead and 25 injured, ten of them seriously, on Thursday, December 21, at Charles University in Prague, according to the police chief.

Very moved, the French restaurateur described “sirens that sounded incessantly”something that was not “not usual” in this “quiet town”. Jean-Charles Berger has lived in the Czech Republic for 17 years and in Prague for ten years, he has “never heard of such a police movement.”

Students stranded “for hours

In his restaurant, he hires three students: “We hoped they weren’t there”, he says. Student who works at her restaurant was at the university library next door at the time of the shooting “found herself blocked for hours, the watchword was ‘stay hidden'”.

Since then, the city center of Prague has become calm again, explains the restaurateur but “We only talk about this” And “Everyone is still asking the question why?”