Anti-Islam Group Stages Fake Old Town Terror Siege

Tourists in Prague’s Old Town Square were in for a shock yesterday afternoon when armed men dressed in Islamic garments and military camouflage, shouting “Allahu Akbar” and carrying ISIS flags, marched into Old Town Square.  

But the guns, and the beards, were fake.

Along with a jeep full of actors playing Islamic extremists, the group also marched a camel and a goat (wearing an “Erotic City” banner, no less) into the Square shortly after 14:00.

According to the organizer, an outspoken opponent of Islam, the event was a success.

“The aim of the event should be shock. The scenario and replica weapons were agreed beforehand with the city.”

But multiple witnesses described a different scene, one in which panic quickly spread among onlookers who didn’t realize this was a staged piece of fiction.

“I was coming out of Pařížská and I saw people in turbans,” said an unnamed witness. “Then suddenly people started to run in all directions. I saw a lady who started crying, shaking; she had been in shock.”

Police were quick to intervene and cut the event short. While the group is currently being investigated for scaremongering, most are simply aghast that something like this was staged in the first place.

“They were lucky that no one there was armed,” commented a police spokesperson.