Archive for: August, 2010

New information on killer of 7 with video of final minutes of his shooting spree

A victim is hurried away from the scene

Bratislava killer’s last few moments! The media have had a hard time getting information surrounding the grave shooting of 8 people in Bratislava yesterday, but now things are starting to be clarified thanks to a press conference held today, 31 August, by interior minister Daniel Lipsic, together with chief of police and head of the [...]

Abduction of Kovac Jr.: government wants to annul Meciar amnesties

Vladimir Meciar (c) Péter Kamocsai

Yesterday marked the 15th anniversary of the abduction of former President Kovac’s son, Michal Kovac Jr, and with the new government there is rising pressure to get to the bottom of what happened and get some justice into the thwarted investigation. It was August 31 1995 when Kovac Jr. was kidnapped near Bratislava by a [...]

Killer was loner who didn’t like his neighbours

The site where the killer took his own life - bullet holes marked on the wall

The shooting in Devinska Nova Ves yesterday, which saw 15 injured and carries a death toll of eight human lives so far, is looking more and more like the result of one unstable man’s frustration with his Roma neighbours, the Putik family. Neighbours in the vicinity have said that they were rowdy and problematic. The [...]

Death toll 8: attack may have been racially-motivated against Roma

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A 53-yr old woman was discovered dead in her flat at the site of the shooting today in Devinska Nova Ves after everyone hoped the death toll had stopped. The news was announced at a press conference a little while ago by interior minister Daniel Lipsic. The woman had apparently been on her balcony when [...]

Death toll in DNV reaches 7: shooter takes his own life

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Regarding the mass shooting that took place today just after 10 am in Devinska Nova Ves, Bratislava,  interior minister Daniel Lipsic and police chief Jaroslav Spisiak have now held a press conference on site to provide more detailed information about this sad day in Slovak history. The story is still unfolding, but chief of police [...]

NEWSFLASH (updated) – 21 injured and 7 dead in DNV, Bratislava, as crazed armed shooter goes on rampage

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An armed man started shooting randomly at people in Devinska Nova Ves just after 10.00 this morning with an automatic weapon. Spokeswoman for the Operations centre of the Medical Rescue Service, Dominka Sulkova, has now confirmed that so far they have 21 injured and 7 dead (updated 13.17). At least 4 women and 2 men [...]

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