Petőcz Kálmán (szerk.): National Populism and Slovak - Hungarian Relations in Slovakia 2006-2009 (Somorja, 2009)
Annex
Annex - Marie Vrabcová the crime scene’s sketch map; last but not least, they did not even carry out a re-enactment of the incident in order to establish how long would it take the girl to cover the distance from the bus station to a birch grove by the university. During the first questioning in the Nitra hospital, Malinová stated that her identity papers and her credit card had been stolen with the purse; on the same day, somebody posted these personal effects in an envelope to her domicile in Horné Mýto. Malinová informed the police as soon as she received the delivery; on August 30, 2006, two investigators visited her in Horné Mýto to collect the said envelope without filling out the takeover form at the spot. It was later inserted into the investigation file along with a note that Malinová handed over the envelope in person to case investigator Peter Horák in Nitra; however, Malinová was not in Nitra on that day, which means that she must have signed the form later, probably on September 9, 2006, when she was brought to the Nitra police station. On that Saturday morning, police captains Moško and Müllner travelled to pick up Malinová, stopping first in Horné Mýto and then in Dunajská Streda where she stayed at her friend’s place. They told her that they had apprehended the suspected assailants and asked her to travel with them to Nitra in order to identify them. In the end, the visit turned out to be anything but identification. When she arrived at the Nitra police station, Malinová was subjected to a six-hour interrogation during which the police tried to make her confess that she had made up the entire incident. They did not let her call her family or her lawyer and made a video recording of the entire interrogation despite her protests. Malinová did not budge and maintained until the end that the attack had indeed taken place. On September 12, 2006, three days after she was released, Prime Minister Robert Fico and Interior Minister Robert Kaliňák appeared on a press conference at which they announced that the police had terminated investigation of the matter with a conclusion that no assault had taken place and everything was a mere fabrication by a student who was anxious about her examination.4 EvidENCE of Míníster KaIíňáI< During the press conference, Interior Minister Robert Kaliňák presented several alleged evidence that according to his interpretation corroborated that Hedviga Malinová had lied. First he presented the victim’s blouse, claiming that the garment in which she had allegedly lied in wet grass was completely clean except blood stains. Then he presented the envelope in which Malinová had received her identity papers and said that according to 302
