Bratislava, April 16 (CTK) – New Slovak Interior Minister Tomas Drucker will tender his resignation since he does not consider it right to dismiss Police President Tibor Gaspar, which demonstrators demand, Drucker told journalists today. Protesters call for changes after the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee in early March that ...
Bratislava, March 15 (CTK) – The organisers of anti-government protests in Slovakia are not satisfied with the resignation of Prime Minister Robert Fico after the murder of journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee, and they demand early elections, they said in their statement today. Civic activists, who have staged the biggest demonstrations in Slovakia’s ...
Bratislava, March 13 (CTK) – The Slovak police have arrested, based on an European arrest warrant, Italian businessman Antonino Vadala, whom the recently murdered Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak mentioned in his last article, the Slovak General Prosecutor’s Office announced. The warrant for Vadala’s arrest was issued by a court in Venice, Italy. “By ...
Bratislava, March 6 (CTK) – The Slovak police confirmed today that head of the anti-corruption unit Robert Krajmer, who is being connected with “oligarch” Norbert Bodor, a brother-in-law of Police President Tibor Gaspar, was on the scene of the murder of journalist Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend. Gaspar himself said on Monday Krajmer had ...
Bratislava, March 5 (CTK) – Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-Social Democracy) has failed to see how serious the situation in Slovak society after the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his partner is, major Slovak dailies write today. “We are watching a live broadcast of the end of Robert Fico. There seem to ...
Bratislava, March 4 (CTK) – Slovak President Andrej Kiska proposed today “a vast and essential” reconstruction of the cabinet of Robert Fico or an early general election as a way out of the crisis of confidence in the state following last week’s murder of journalist Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend. Kiska will discuss the ...
Bratislava, March 3 (CTK) – The Slovak police have released all seven Italians who had been detained on Thursday within the investigation into last week’s murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee, the police announced today, confirming information of the server tvnoviny.sk. The server reported this morning that at least six of ...
Bratislava, March 3 (CTK) – Reporters without Borders (RSF) Secretary General Christophe Deloire insists on having called on Slovak PM Robert Fico to apologise for offending journalists, but Fico dismissed the information on Friday and the Government Office released a statement in his support today. At a meeting with Fico in Bratislava on Friday, ...
Bratislava/Prague, March 2 (CTK) – Thousands of people gathered in the centre of Bratislava today to pay respect to investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova who were shot dead last week probably by mafia operating in Slovakia. The murder of the two young people rocked the Slovak political scene. A national ...
