Klaus to LN: attack may not have been ‘isolated incident’

President Václav Klaus has told the daily Lidové noviny that the airgun attack on him last week may not have been an ‘isolated incident’. In an interview to be published on Saturday, the president considered the possibility of a broader conspiracy based on claims that a record of his bodyguards’ communications during the incident may have been falsified. If that record was not created by the attacker himself, the president said, then the attack was not the isolated act of a troubled person. Klaus, who has called the attack an assassination attempt, also said the media debate over his use of the word was based in leftist hatred. Last Friday, a 26-year-old man pulled an airsoft pistol on Mr Klaus at a public event and fired seven pellets at him at point-blank range, causing bruises and cuts.