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A Court in Pilsen Sent a Senior Citizen to Prison for 12 Years for a Murder with a Saber on a Forest Road | ČeskéNoviny.cz

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Pilsen - The Pilsen Regional Court today sentenced 75-year-old Jiří Chmelarčík to 12 years in a maximum security prison for murder over a conflict on a forest road in the Tachov region. The man said in court that he did not want to kill anyone. However, last October, he stabbed a 56-year-old man, whose car was blocking his passage on a narrow road, directly into the heart with a saber hidden in a stick, the verdict said today. The man died on th…
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A trivial dispute between two men in the Czech Forest in the Tachov region ended in murder last October. Seventy-five-year-old Jiří Ch. from Cheb stabbed a 56-year-old tourist from Pilsen with a saber hidden in his walking stick. He was sentenced to life in prison at the Regional Court in Pilsen on Wednesday. According to the verdict, which has not yet become final, he is to spend the next 12 years in a maximum-security prison.

Pilsen - The Pilsen Regional Court today sentenced 75-year-old Jiří Chmelarčík to 12 years in a maximum security prison for murder over a conflict on a forest road in the Tachov region. The man said in court that he did not want to kill anyone. However, last October, he stabbed a 56-year-old man, whose car was blocking his passage on a narrow road, directly into the heart with a saber hidden in a stick, the verdict said today. The man died on th…

The news had also caused a stir on this side of the border last October. The chief physician of the Domažlice hospital is said to have mistreated two women, one of them brutally killed. Only the trial starts.

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onetz.de broke the news in on Tuesday, June 17, 2025.
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