They marched silently through the heart of Prague, coming to a halt beneath the stone arches of the imposing building. Linking arms, the crowd of more than 1,000 people encircled the building where, two weeks earlier, the country’s worst mass killing took place.
“It was a hug for the building,” said Jakub Jirsa, who heads the department of philosophy and religious studies at Charles University. “An evil thing happened there and we have to overcome it. The whole tragedy should not take it away from us.”
