BRATISLAVA – In Slovakia, the premier appointed the anti-corruption Igor Matovic, the winner of the elections of the 29th of February last, keeps his promises of “doing clean in a way more radical”. Unondata of arrest without previous struck in the last few hours the judiciary of the small democracy in central european. Thirteen judges dalto rank, including the present interim president of the supreme Court and a former undersecretary at the Justice, were arrested and are accused of suspicious links with Márian Kocner, loligarca friend of the old premier sovranista-socialist Robert Fico. Kocner is under the process together with his secretary, and the killer he hired as principal dellassassinio, in February of 2018, the investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his partner Martina Kusnirová.
Londata of arrests of judges is a fact without precedent in the history of the democratic Slovakia. “Operation storm”, called the blitz launched throughout the national territory by special forces of the police. Hooded, black uniform, gun, machine gun, Czech fist, the cops knocked on the next to the house of magistrates. Intended that involves them all, mentioned in the warrants of arrest, is “corruption worsened, and obstacles to the investigations of justice, contacts with criminal organisations”.
All the thirteen arrested will be judged directly by the constitutional Court of the Slovak republic, in view of the gravity of the case. Are not excluded further arrests, with all the evidence to the investigation in order “to do cleaning in the institutions” promises from the neopremier Igor Matovic to the voters and citizens are still in progress. The first details about the new investigation on the case Kuciak, made known by official sources and the media in Slovakia, are frightening, and worse still the position of the main accused in the ongoing process, in fact loligarca Márian Kocner.
In a phone call intercepted from the special departments after the murder of the investigative journalist who had revealed his economic crimes and the partner of the reporter, loligarca had phoned allallora the secretary of Justice Monika Jankovska her and threatened to death if he had not done everything they could to stifle the investigation. With the following words: “do what you must do, or suffer the same fate of Kuciak”. The murder of Jan and Martina created unondata of protests, anti-corruption and antioligarchi of civil society in slovakia. The fig tree had to resign, the militant anticorrotti ngo collaborator of Kuciak, Zuzana Caputová, was elected head of State, and now the recent parliamentary elections were stravinte dallOlano (the Union of the ordinary people and independent personalities), force anti-corruption, and also antimigranti of the centre-right led by the 46-year-old tycoon of the media, Igor Matovic.
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