2024-06-30 20:13:30
Laura Kellö Kalinská devoted herself to the homicide of Ján Kuciak from the very starting. Looking back, she is shocked that the police managed to catch the executor in any respect. Immediately, in accordance with her, the temper in direction of journalists is much more heated. “As a substitute of the federal government competing with the opposition, it competes with us, it desires to punish and starve us,” says the journalist of the Aktuality.sk server, who reveals particulars in regards to the perpetrators and the investigation within the ebook.
Did you come throughout something stunning whereas writing your new ebook in regards to the homicide of Ján Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kušnírová?
When the police first made a bigger raid and arrested the primary suspects, it appeared within the Czech media that Slovak investigators had been helped by satellite tv for pc photos from an American satellite tv for pc. I believed it too, however ultimately it turned out to be a whole hoax. Satellite tv for pc photos usually are not detailed or excessive sufficient to show this.
However most of all, I used to be shocked by the actual fact that our cops managed to do it in any respect. The Slovak police didn’t have a superb popularity at the moment. I flipped via your complete file web page by web page. After I noticed how detailed evaluation they did, how they compiled data, analyzed each element in nice element, I’ve to say that I discover the efficiency of the primary folks within the investigation staff of Kuciak’s homicide unimaginable.
Regardless of this, the Slovak media usually expressed disappointment that the courtroom didn’t twice show the guilt of Marian Kočner, who, in accordance with the indictment, ought to have ordered the homicide.
Regardless of what it feels like and regardless of the acquittals in opposition to Kočner, I feel it was a fast and really exact investigation. In recent times, because the trial continues, no piles of latest proof have surfaced to counsel that investigators missed one thing or did one thing unsuitable. So I do not actually assume that the investigators did not do sufficient, however our justice system works in such a manner that if the judges usually are not 100% positive, they like to acquit the defendant. I feel it’s right. The issue is that the acquittals on this case weren’t clear sufficient for many of the public to grasp and settle for.
VIn your ebook, there are additionally samples of an encrypted dialog between Kočner and Alena Zsuzsová, who’s in jail for arranging Kuciak’s homicide. Two days after the homicide, when neither the police nor the general public knew about it, they exchanged messages indicating that they each knew in regards to the crime. How do you understand Kočner’s innocence even on this context?
It would not matter what I feel, what issues is what the courtroom says. The proof that the courtroom evaluated doesn’t match with the conclusion that it comprised of it. After I learn the second acquittal in opposition to Kočner, a number of the courtroom’s conclusions contradicted fundamental logic. For instance, the model that Kočner knew nothing and that his colleague Alena Zsuzsová ordered the homicide with out his information, in accordance with the courtroom. Within the ebook, I describe their relationship in nice element. Kočner was the one earnings for Zsuzsová and her household and a supply of massive cash and emotional safety on the similar time.
He was mainly her employer and boss, however the relationship was a lot deeper. She regarded as much as him. She reported completely every little thing to him, even spending a number of euros for wi-fi on the resort when she was on trip. That’s the reason it abruptly doesn’t happen to the lay public that Zsuzsová would do one thing with out Kočner realizing about it. The homicide of Ján Kuciak and Martina Kušnírová primarily instantly threatened Marian Kočner, as a result of now a part of Slovakia and particularly the prosecutor’s workplace take a look at him as the one that ordered the homicide.
Did you uncover any data whereas masking the case that you just could not put within the ebook due to its sensitivity?
I used to be deciding whether or not to omit skilled opinions from the fields of psychology and psychiatry. I struggled so much with it and even as we speak I feel I did properly to not embrace them. Once you study extra in regards to the murderers or the defendants, you can see out what sort of household that they had, what sicknesses they went via, how they had been introduced up, whether or not their mother and father abused them, whether or not there was an issue with medication… I admit that my view of the folks I wrote about. Privateness must be maintained, they’ve a proper to that. Even in the course of the trial, the general public was excluded from the psychological and psychiatric evaluations.
Though I describe the perpetrators, convicts and suspects in additional element within the ebook from the tales of people that met them, from the tales of policemen and prosecutors, I didn’t go into the medical information.
Did you discover out any new issues in regards to the ties of oligarchs or the mafia to politicians?
We had been conscious of the connection between enterprise and politics, together with Marian Kočner to varied businessmen and politicians, even earlier than the homicide. Nonetheless, as quickly as Marian Kočner’s cell phone ended up within the police’s palms after the homicide and so they noticed who he was involved with, it confirmed many suspicions. Through the writing of the ebook, I didn’t come throughout any new connections. Nonetheless, over the previous three years, for instance, it has come to gentle how political and police leaders and a number of other businessmen had been very within the investigation of Kuciak’s homicide.
It was not till 2020 to 2021 that witnesses or instantly perpetrators of prison exercise appeared from the excessive ranks of the police or authorities, who advised about the truth that giant conferences had been held on a mysterious ground in an deserted constructing on the sixth ground in Bratislava, the place stacks of papers and investigations had been taken murders. The police had been by no means capable of show it, however cooperating accusers testified that Robert Fico had requested the knowledge himself and wished to be briefed on the small print. That’s, what comes out of it, the place it goes.
After Kuciak’s homicide, it appeared that individuals in Slovakia had had sufficient of Fico’s authorities. Because of this, he resigned. Immediately, he’s prime minister once more, and criminally prosecuted individuals joined the federal government with him. How do you understand it?
After 2020, till early elections in 2023, Slovakia confronted an epidemic, a battle in Ukraine. Individuals started to place within the background matters that they cared about earlier than, for instance the homicide of Ján Kuciak and the entire course of. Many citizens of the present coalition had been impressed by the assertion that there is no such thing as a rule of regulation in Slovakia. I contemplate the truth that Fico is prime minister once more to be the results of democratic elections.
When Fico returned to energy within the fall, he instantly started sharply attacking the media. He additionally referred to as your Aktuality.sk server, the place Kuciak labored, hostile. How do you understand it?
It isn’t stunning to me as a result of he is carried out it earlier than. Immediately, politicians choose to provide interviews to uncritical media and journalists, by which they’ll say no matter they need. This isn’t how we’ll work and we is not going to even discover whether or not somebody calls us a hostile or a pleasant newspaper.
In Slovakia, nonetheless, the federal government can be taking concrete steps in direction of the media. She managed to trample RTVS, the scenario can be tense at TV Markíza. Does it make your job tough?
I’d fairly say that it complicates issues. I work as earlier than. I at all times give room for expression. It’s their choice whether or not to make use of it. We can’t settle for the conclusion that asking essential questions or writing in regards to the misdeeds of any authorities implies that we’re anti-government or biased. Once we wrote in regards to the authorities on the time, about Igor Matovič and his procedures within the time of covid, about numerous conflicts of pursuits, even the Smér occasion and different politicians used our findings within the political wrestle. However in fact the job is extra sophisticated when some authorities do not talk with you, but it surely’s nothing that daunts me from doing it.
In Could, Slovakia skilled one other tragic occasion, the assassination of Prime Minister Fico. Parallels with previous tragedies emerged, whether or not with the homicide of Ján Kuciak or the taking pictures of two males within the Tepláreň bar. Do you see this as a consequence of persistent aggressiveness in society? And do the occasions have something to do with one another?
We will solely evaluate them slightly, as a result of behind all of the assaults there’s a barely completely different motive. The query is whether or not the dose of aggression is bigger. Hateful feedback in opposition to journalists, not solely from nameless Fb accounts, but in addition from politicians, are fairly widespread lately. They level at us, make us a goal. In comparison with 2018, some political events as we speak understand the media as their competitor or fighter in an imaginary battle. As a substitute of competing for good concepts with the opposition, they compete with journalists. Their agenda is to punish us, starve us, restrict us, intimidate us. That is now probably the most heated ambiance I can keep in mind in my ten yr profession. On the similar time, we don’t wish to battle with politicians, for us they aren’t companions within the competitors, we are not looking for and don’t wage any wars.
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