A 70-year-old man allegedly caused two train crashes and left Arabic messages at the scene, in an attempt to provoke a backlash against Muslims.
Prosecutors in the Czech Republic told local media that the pensioner chopped down trees so they would fall over the railway tracks near Mlada Boleslav, a small city around 40 miles north of the country’s capital, Prague.
State attorney Marek Bodlak said the defendant left leaflets at the scene “containing linguistically garbled threatening texts to evoke that they were written by a jihadist”.
The man who is currently on remand, faces life in prison if found guilty of causing the collisions, which occurred in June and July last year.
Despite causing no injuries, the crashes triggered a wave of xenophobia and Islamophobia on social media in the central European country.
Source: Independent
