In connection with the attack by a student at a grammar school in Spisska Stara Ves, an investigator of the Internal Affairs Inspectorate (UIS) has charged a police officer with the criminal offence of obstructing the duties of public officials. Private TV Markiza highlighted that the accused is the head of the local police department. The police informed that the officer is said to have misjudged critical information regarding the student and could face imprisonment of one to five years.
The victims of the knife attack that took place at the grammar school in Spisska Stara Ves on January 16 were two women, aged 18 and 51, a student and the school's deputy head teacher. Another student was injured. The police have charged the suspect, an 18-year-old student, with premeditated murder. The accused student threatened his classmates via text messages a few days before the attack. At the time, the police assessed this behaviour as bullying, not as a criminal offence.
Source: TASR
