For months doubts as to whether the murder of the Slovak investigative journalists Jan Kuciak would be cleared passed. Now there are at least a detailed Tatrekonstruktion and evidence to the Client.
In Slovakia, numerous killings with a political Background or from the Milieu of organized crime have remained stable over the past two decades unaccounted for – especially because Top politicians and the police seemed involved in one way or another. This experience left many journalists in the country to conclude that the murder of her colleague, investigative reporter Jan Kuciak, and his fiancée Martina Kusnirova would probably never be solved.
Now it looks as if they would not keep law – fortunately: organization and execution of the murder are reconstructed by investigators, apparently to a large extent, also to the Client, there are clues. A “pleasant Surprise” is the name of one of the most well-known colleagues Kuciaks, the investigative journalist Arpad Soltesz, the development of the DW.
After a information of the daily newspaper Sme application published by the Slovak special court of justice (STS) met this week, an anonymous document in the organization and execution of the murder are described in detail. What persons are meant in each case, is easily readable. The Tatrekonstruktion is based, in large part, apparently, on the testimony of one of the two weeks ago in Slovakia arrested four suspects: Zoltan A., Reportedly the only statement willing. The other three, Tomas Sz., Miroslav M. and Alena Zs., refuse, apparently, so far the statement.
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A long-planned murder
According to the Protocol, the act of murder was by the end of 2017 by Alena Zs. in the order given. At the time, from the südslowakischen town of Komarno business woman met with her well-Known Zoltan A. and handed him a mobile phone with many photos by Jan Kuciak and related information to his place of residence and place of work. Zoltan A. officer, in turn, the former police officer and private Security man Tomas Sz. from the village of Kolarovo with the murder. For the murder of Alena Zs offered. 50,000 euros in cash and the payment of 20,000 euros of debt, which had Zoltan.
Tomas Sz., the company was a business for dietary supplements, knew the weapons had been training at a private Security and mercenary company in Poland, and several times as a personal and property protector worked. As a driver and accomplices Tomas Sz. his Cousin, Miroslav M.
The two scouted Kuciaks place of residence, the village of Velka Maca, 60 kilometres North-East of the capital Bratislava, from the 5. February of this year, at least seven Times. On the day of the murder, the 21. February, entered Tomas Sz. the house of Kuciak and his fiancée by the apparently unlocked door, and waited for the journalists. To murder his fiancée, was not originally planned, Tomas Sz. she shot, however, because they would otherwise have been a witness. Sz. killed Kuciak with two shots in the chest, his fiancée, with a shot to the head. Martina Kusnirova was immediately dead, Kuciak himself lived and bled to death. How long his agony took the log. Not found the murder weapon so far, however, the police found during the search of Tomas Sz.s house ammunition, which is identical with the 9-mm-Luger-ammunition of the murder.
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Information about the responsible management
After the murder of Tomas Sz drove. and Miroslav M. to Zoltan A. Komarom and received the agreed 50,000 euros in cash. Not until the following day informed Zoltan A., in turn, Alena Zs. the fact that Kuciaks be fiancée has been murdered. Alena Zs. responded according to the Protocol, apparently extremely nervous and upset about it.
After Tomas Sz. and Miroslav M. will have been about the immense scope of the act of murder to your public aware of it, they demanded even more money, what Alena Zs. finally, paid. An exact sum of the log calls. According to the investigators, Alena has Zs. however, there is no motive for Murder, because Kuciak did not know you and your Name in his documents didn’t show up, so she had been, at best, a facilitator of the murder order. A suspect, the police found, in this regard, Alena Zs. currently out of work was, however, a financially complicated life and at the time of their arrest of 23,000 euros in cash were found.
A Principal of the murder, which could have a motive, do not call the document. However, it could be according to the publicly known clues to the location of the controversial businessman Marian Kocner, Kuciak had threatened in the fall of 2017, in a telephone conversation personally targeted. Kocner is involved in numerous criminal activities, but seemed so far due to its good Connections in politics and the judiciary untouchable. He is the godfather of Alena Zs.s daughter. Photos that have been released this week, to Zs at a Meeting with Alena. At the end of last year. Kocner itself, because of fraud since June, in custody sits, denies the allegations and claims that he knew Alena Zs. not.
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The reconstruction of the murder of Kuciak and his fiancee could be the start of a turning point in the work of the police and judicial authorities in the Slovak Republic. In the opinion of many colleagues from Kuciak it ferments, especially among the simple and medium-sized police officers has long been huge – many are obviously deeply frustrated about the political influence on many criminal cases.
This theme is also the Slovak President Andrej Kiska spoke to this week. It is extremely important that honest police officers, investigators and prosecutors would work a free Hand by the police leadership and the Ministry of the interior, warned the President in an event of an Anti-terrorist unit of the Ministry of interior. “We need to be able to trust the police to a body,” said Kiska, “the people.”