On Sunday, several people broke into the apartment building in which governing Freedom and Solidarity MP Ján Benčík lives to pound on his door and call him a traitor. The group plastered the entire entrance to the building with posters with his face and text reading "Here lives a warmonger, snitch and traitor to Slovakia". They reproached him for backing the Slovak-US Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) in Parliament. The MP reported the incident to the police and also described it on his Facebook account, attaching pictures. In addition, he also filed a criminal complaint against the "visitors". According to the MP, his wife was in the apartment with him at the time of the incident.
Two weeks ago some members of the opposition parties Hlas, Smer and Republika posted on social media a so-called "traitors list" with the names of 79 MPs who supported the defence agreement with the US in the National Council. Subsequently Interior Minister Roman Mikulec said that the police had registered these cases of threats against MPs and had therefore taken certain measures, which he did not want to specify for tactical reasons.
