Regarding the violence in the corridors of the US Congress, the Slovak
President Zuzana Čaputová asked people to draw parallels between the USA
and the situation in Slovakia these days, especially in connection to the misinformation surrounding the suicide of the ex-Police Chief Milan Lučanský. "Let's demand facts, learn the truth and ask for responsibility to be assumed. But not by stirring up hatred, which has never helped anyone to uncover the truth, whatsoever," stated Zuzana Čaputová.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court decided at its closed-door session that six men detained as part of a police operation called Judas in early December 2020 would remain in custody. The defendants face charges of bribery, founding, orchestrating and supporting a criminal group and breach of confidentiality. Ex-police president Milan Lučanský was one of the defendants, but the prosecution against him was terminated on December 31 due to his suicide while in custody.
The parliamentary security and defence committee was meeting on Thursday to look into the circumstances regarding the injuries to and the death of the former Police Corps president. Opposition MP Denisa Saková (Independent) initiated the meeting. Saková had posted on a social network that she had submitted requests to provide the committee with access to several documents, including official and camera records, medical reports and the list of staff in charge of Lučanský's medical treatment and transfers. Parliamentary Vice-chair Juraj Šeliga (For the People) stressed the need to reassure the public that nobody is hiding anything. According to the available information, it was a tragic incident and Lučanský's own decision to take his own life, said Šeliga. "Let's not turn it into something that it isn't; it's a tragedy. I regret it, as the general would definitely have shed light on many cases under investigation, but he decided in this way," he added.
The Justice Ministry has already published several documents regarding both the injuries sustained by Lučanský in early December and his subsequent suicide. The justice minister recently said that she could not publish the camera recordings, as it would thwart the ongoing criminal proceedings. She was taken by surprise by the correspondence between Lučanský and members of his family brought to the parliamentary meeting by the lawyer of Milan Lučanský's family Miroslav Radačovský, currently an independent MEP nominated for the far right party ĽSNS. Kolíková also set up a commission to examine the case. It has 17 members, including opposition and coalition MPs, plus representatives of the president, ombudswoman, media and foreign experts.
Source: TASR
