Prosecutor: Jan Kuciak’s and his fiancé’s deaths were a contract killing

The circumstances that have been identified so far suggest that the assassinations of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnirová at the end of February were a contract murder. A prosecutor of the Special Prosecutor's Office made this public statement on Monday. According to him they were murdered on February 21 with a 9mm calibre pistol. "The female victim was shot in the head from the front, the other victim was shot twice in the heart also from the front," the prosecutor said. In his words, there was no evidence of a fight and most likely, nothing was stolen. Two empty cartridges were found at the crime scene as well as unused bullets. The Special Prosecutor's Office pointed out that the Slovak law enforcement agencies are cooperating with foreign investigators on this case, Italians as well as Europol. According to the prosecutor, restraint is important in providing information about this case.