MPs against revoking amnesties that protect them, says mother of slain policeman

Many MPs opposing the scrapping of former prime minister Vladimir Mečiar's amnesties are actually protecting themselves, Anna Remiášová, the mother of murdered former police investigator Róbert Remiáš, said after the premiere of the political thriller film 'Unos' (Kidnapping) on Wednesday night. The plot of the new film describes the events surrounding the 1995 abduction of then-president Michal Kováč's son Michal Kováč Jr. as well as the alleged links between the crime, the mafia and the Slovak Intelligence Service (SIS) in the mid-1990s. The SIS, during Mečiar's reign, was suspected of being involved in the kidnapping of Kováč as well as the related murder in 1996 of Remiáš, who served as a link to a key witness in the case. "Show me a single law that allows for the issuing of an amnesty for crimes that are only due to be investigated. It's clear that individual MPs are attempting to dodge scrapping this because they're actually protecting themselves," said Remiášová, adding that there won't be any rule of justice in Slovakia until evildoers from the past are punished. According to Remiášová, current politicians think that they can do anything. "However, justice should apply to everyone. I've been fighting for justice for 20 years, and now I'm only concerned with seeing the people who committed these grave crimes named publicly. Sure, this won't bring my son back, but at this point I mainly want to ensure that future generations have a more just state to live in," she said.