Since the murder of the journalist Ján Kuciak the trust of the Slovaks in their state apparatus is at a low point. A former police officer, reported for the first time, Links between the police and the Mafia.
Anger and questions: a commemorative March to the murder of journalists in Bratislava
The woman and the little Boy are at the wrong time in the wrong car. Henrieta Brestovanska drives the blue VW Passat of your friend Juraj Gál, back of Richard, the son of Gál sits. Actually, the killer Juraj want to execute Gál, a former police officer, it goes to settlements in the Mafia Milieu. However, Gál is not in the car. The shots from the machine gun hit his friend Henrieta, 30, and his son Richard, 9 – in error.
Most pri Bratislave, a suburb of the Slovak capital, on October 29. December 2004: The murder of Henrieta Brestovanska and the little Richard is considered one of the most infamous cases in the history of the post-organised crime of the Communist to have been received in Slovakia. Especially because the murderer is the Wrong shot. But also, because of state failure and probably also to state involvement: The case investigators have solved a very long time. However, the judgment against the alleged killer who was convicted for other murders already to a life imprisonment penalty, is not spoken today. The alleged main customer of the murder were Slovak authorities to escape. He is under indictment, but since 2012, in Belize, to be delivered.
Links to the state and the Mafia
If Ivan Chovan speaks today about the murder in Most pri Bratislave, then he quickly comes to a conclusion. “This case illustrates,” says the detective, “that there is between the police and organized crime, between the state institutions and the Mafia Connections. This is in our country is not an isolated case, but spread it until now.”
The police in Slovakia enjoys the confidence of
Ivan Chovan, 47, was one of the lead investigators in the murder in Most pri Bratislave. After harassment and dislocations he retired in 2012 the police service. There is an exception in Slovakia, former or still active, medium-sized officials how he talk openly about their dissatisfaction with the leadership in police, justice or government administration. Chovan told now for the first time to the public his story. He speaks only what the majority of people think in the country, including many of his colleagues: trust in the security authorities and the state apparatus is extremely low, and after the murder of the journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancé in February of this year to a low point fell.
No Less a person than the President of the Republic Andrej Kiska spoke recently for the umpteenth Time: After the police had arrested four suspects in the murder case, Kuciak, said Kiska, it was a success, however, the police had to do very much to lost trust back. Especially, the state President, would have to be brought up a lot of old cases to a final conclusion.
Delay, cover up
As the murder case of Most pri Bratislave. Ivan Chovan and his associates in the murder Commission identified more than two years. Could you make Branislav Adamco as a murderer, for his special brutality-known leader of a group of hard criminals from the South-East of Slovakia. Adamco is sentenced for murder to life imprisonment. However, a final judgment in the process to the murder in Most pri Bratislave is not spoken, after 14 years still.
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Alleged main client should be Karol Mello, also for more than two decades, a notorious figure of the Slovak underworld, the four murders and numerous other offences. Mello was arrested in 2010 after a multi-year run, the following year, however, surprisingly free. A short time later, he fled Belize in the Central American state, and has lived there ever since.
Extradition requests Slovakia failed so far. The mother of the murdered Richard, Jana Heldová and her current husband, Maros Hero, is suspected to Deutsche Welle, there was apparently no interest in Mello’s extradition, since he knew probably too much about high Slovak officials and politicians.
Hard Threats
Prove not to be so far, as well as Heldová and her husband. However, there is circumstantial evidence. And the result, among other things, to a man named Boris Drevenák. He was a long-time top official in a police special unit to combat organised crime and during the investigation into the murder case of Most pri Bratislave also superior of Ivan Chovan. The former police Commissioner reported that his boss does not have it indicated on several occasions to investigate further. As he did resist, Chovan, to be to him, disciplinary proceedings appended. Also his wife, who worked for operation in a Textile that had been signalled, it would be better for her husband if he didn’t stop to identify in the murder case of Most pri Bratislave.
A request of the German wave to the Slovak police, even after several weeks of unanswered. Fixed: Drevenák was arrested in August 2016, is currently in a process due to alleged Links to the Mafia runs against him. The most serious charges: He is supposed to have betrayed a under police protection, leniency in a Mafia-process – the witness was murdered.
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Still a long way to the rule of law
Ivan Chovan was because of the harassment of Drevenák soon after the completion of the investigation in the murder case of Most pri Bratislave move, he headed the police Department for the fight against drugs. In 2012, he retired voluntarily from the police service after his unit was reorganized and he should be moved to a subordinate Post. Today, he works in the Technical monitoring service of Slovakia, as a lawyer. “It will take a very long time, until the citizens can have confidence in the police and perhaps one or two generations, to which Slovakia is a real democratic state,” he says with a big disillusionment.
Since the murder of her son, Jana Heldovás is destroyed lives. “Mr. Chovan and other investigators have given in your work, more than a hundred percent,” say you and your husband Maros. “Nevertheless, after fourteen years, still no justice. This is shocking.”