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Olga Hepnarová, the Glossary

Olga Hepnarová (30 June 1951 – 12 March 1975) was a Czechoslovak rampage killer, who on 10 July 1973, killed eight people with a truck in Prague.^[1]

Automatic firearm

An automatic firearm or fully automatic firearm (to avoid confusion with semi-automatic firearms) is a self-loading firearm that continuously chambers and fires rounds when the trigger mechanism is actuated.

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České slovo

České slovo (Czech/Bohemian Word), also known as Svobodné slovo (Free Word) was a Czech daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in Prague since 1907, by Publishing House Melantrich, until its cancellation in 1997.

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Bank teller

A bank teller (often abbreviated to simply teller) is an employee of a bank whose responsibilities include the handling of customer cash and negotiable instruments.

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Březová-Oleško

Březová-Oleško is a municipality in Prague-West District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.

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Bohumil Hrabal

Bohumil Hrabal (28 March 1914 – 3 February 1997) was a Czech writer, often named among the best Czech writers of the 20th century.

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Capital punishment

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct.

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Capital punishment in the Czech Republic

Capital punishment (trest smrti in Czech) is forbidden by the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms of the Czech Republic (part of the constitutional law of the Czech Republic) and is simultaneously prohibited by international legal obligations arising from the Czech Republic's membership of both the Council of Europe and the European Union.

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Cheb

Cheb (Eger) is a town in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic.

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Czechoslovak koruna

The Czechoslovak koruna (in Czech and Slovak: koruna československá, at times koruna česko-slovenská; koruna means crown) was the currency of Czechoslovakia from 10 April 1919 to 14 March 1939, and from 1 November 1945 to 7 February 1993.

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The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, known from 1948 to 1960 as the Czechoslovak Republic, Fourth Czechoslovak Republic, or simply Czechoslovakia, was the Czechoslovak state from 1948 until 1989, when the country was under communist rule, and was regarded as a satellite state in the Soviet sphere of interest.

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Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.

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Czechs

The Czechs (Češi,; singular Czech, masculine: Čech, singular feminine: Češka), or the Czech people (Český lid), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history, and the Czech language.

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Dentist

A dentist, also known as a dental surgeon, is a health care professional who specializes in dentistry, the branch of medicine focused on the teeth, gums, and mouth.

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Drama (film and television)

In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

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Hanging

Hanging is killing a person by suspending them from the neck with a noose or ligature.

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I, Olga Hepnarová

I, Olga Hepnarová (Já, Olga Hepnarová) is a 2016 internationally co-produced drama film, directed by Tomáš Weinreb and Petr Kazda, about Olga Hepnarová (1951–1975).

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List of prime ministers of Czechoslovakia

The prime minister of Czechoslovakia (předseda vlády Československa, predseda vlády Česko-Slovenska) was the head of government of Czechoslovakia, from the creation of the First Czechoslovak Republic in 1918 until the dissolution of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic on 1 January 1993.

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Lubomír Štrougal

Lubomír Štrougal (19 October 1924 – 6 February 2023) was a Czech politician who was the prime minister of Czechoslovakia from 1970 to 1988.

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Mladý svět

Mladý Svět (Young World) was a magazine published in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic.

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Molotov cocktail

A Molotov cocktail (among several other names – see) is a hand-thrown incendiary weapon consisting of a frangible container filled with flammable substances and equipped with a fuse (typically a glass bottle filled with flammable liquids sealed with a cloth wick).

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Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction.

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Náchod

Náchod (Nachod) is a town in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic.

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Opařany

Opařany (Woporschan) is a municipality and village in Tábor District in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.

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Pankrác Prison

Pankrác Prison, officially Prague Pankrác Remand Prison (Vazební věznice Praha Pankrác) in Czech), is a prison in Prague, Czech Republic. A part of the Czech Prison Service, it is located southeast of Prague city centre in Pankrác, not far from Pražského povstání metro station on Line C.

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Pardon

A pardon is a government decision to allow a person to be relieved of some or all of the legal consequences resulting from a criminal conviction.

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Praga RN

The Praga RN (lit) was a medium-sized truck manufactured by Praga from 1933.

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Prague

Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.

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Prague 7

Prague 7 is a municipal district (městská část) in Prague, Czech Republic.

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Psychiatry

Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of deleterious mental conditions.

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Spree killer

A spree killer is someone who commits a criminal act that involves two or more murders in a short time, often in multiple locations.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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Svazarm

Svazarm or Union for Cooperation with the Army (Czech: Svaz pro spolupráci s armádou / Svazarm, Slovak: Zväz pre spoluprácu s armádou / Zväzarm) was, in Communist Czechoslovakia, the largest "paramilitary" organisation, although many of the activities that Svazarm provided for its members were more reminiscent of a Boy Scout movement than of a regimented paramilitary group.

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Trabant

Trabant is a series of small cars produced from 1957 until 1991 by former East German car manufacturer VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau.

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Truck

A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle designed to transport freight, carry specialized payloads, or perform other utilitarian work.

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Truck driver

A truck driver (commonly referred to as a trucker, teamster or driver in the United States and Canada; a truckie in Australia and New Zealand; an HGV driver in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the European Union, a lorry driver, or driver in the United Kingdom, Ireland, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Malaysia and Singapore) is a person who earns a living as the driver of a truck, which is commonly defined as a large goods vehicle (LGV) or heavy goods vehicle (HGV) (usually a semi truck, box truck, or dump truck).

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Vehicle-ramming attack

A vehicle-ramming attack, also known as a vehicle as a weapon or VAW attack, is an assault in which a perpetrator deliberately rams a vehicle into a building, people, or another vehicle. Olga Hepnarová and vehicle-ramming attack are murders by motor vehicle.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Hepnarová

Also known as 1973 Czechoslovakia truck attack, Hepnarová.

Olga Hepnarová, the Glossary

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See also

Bisexual women

Czech female murderers

Czech mass murderers

Czechoslovak LGBT people

Czechoslovak female murderers

Czechoslovak mass murderers

Czechoslovak people convicted of murder

Executed Czechoslovak women

Female mass murderers

Massacres in 1973

Massacres in the Czech Republic

Murders by motor vehicle

People convicted of murder by Czechoslovakia

Vehicular rampage in Europe

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