Israeli Terror In Prague

Israeli Sentenced To Prison For Bomb Attack In Prague

The Associated Press
Published: June 18, 2007
IHT

PRAGUE, Czech Republic: An Israeli citizen has been sentenced to five years in prison for carrying out a bomb attack that targeted the owner of a downtown Prague casino in 2004, an official said Monday.

Judge Bohuslav Horky said the Prague Municipal Court on Monday convicted Yakov Moshaylov of being a threat to the public, and sentenced him to five years in prison.

Moshaylov, who will serve his term in an Israeli prison, was also expelled from the Czech Republic indefinitely, Horky said.

Moshaylov, who immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union, was arrested in September 2004 in Israel for having thrown a bomb under a car in front of Prague's Casino Royal the previous month. The blast lightly injured 18 people, most of them foreign tourists.

The target was the casino's owner, Israeli citizen Assaf Abutbul, who was not injured and left the country a few days later. The casino has since closed.

Moshaylov was extradited to the Czech Republic for trial in January 2006 under the condition that he serve his prison term in Israel.