Petőcz Kálmán (szerk.): National Populism and Slovak - Hungarian Relations in Slovakia 2006-2009 (Somorja, 2009)
Annex
Annex - Marie Vrabcová cide on May 4, 2007, i.e. on the day he was subpoenaed to questioning.13 The other man, Peter Korček, was not questioned at all; at least the official interrogation transcript makes no reference to it. KorčeIc Ihací worI<ecI foR Lexa's SIS On May 24, 2007, the Constitutional Court rejected the complaint filed by Hedviga Malinová regarding her objection to violating her right to protection against inhuman and humiliating treatment on grounds that the complainant had not used all remedial means and other legal means effectively available within Slovakia’s judicial system before she turned to this institution. In reaction to the decision, Malinová on June 13, 2007, filed a motion with the Office of Regional Attorney in Nitra, demanding it to examine lawfulness of the conduct and decisions by law enforcement organs in the matter of the attack on her person. The next day it turned out that Peter Korček who filed a formally perfect motion for Malinová’s criminal prosecution had served with the Slovak Intelligence Service (SIS) during the infamous stint of Ivan Lexa and at the time of filing the motion he worked as an assistant of Peter Gabura, an MP for KDH.14 At this point, the list of Gabura’s assistants also included Igor Cibula, a former secret service agent, and Zuzana Trnková, wife of Attorney General Dobroslav Tmka. According to all persons involved, these circumstances had nothing to do with the fact that it was Tmka who insisted that Malinová had to take criminal responsibility for her actions. At first, Gabura told the media he did not know about the entire affair and that he would fire Korček; later, he argued that assistants of MPs also had civil rights and therefore they cannot be reproached for filing a motion for criminal prosecution against anybody. On May 31, 2007, SNS Chairman Ján Slota declared that the alleged attack on Malinová “was an artificial, staged provocation” by which someone “wanted to create an impression that Slovak citizens who speak Hungarian are persecuted in Slovakia”. Jozef Hašto, a psychiatrist who examined Malinová after the attack publicly spoke out on June 1, 2007.15 In a media interview, Hašto spoke of the trauma Malinová was exposed to and how she managed to overcome it. He emphasized that Malinová was a strong, open and trustworthy person and that based on several multi-hour conversations, he as a psychiatrist was convinced that she had spoken the truth. On June 5, 2007, Kvasnica officially objected to prejudice of all Nitra investigators, policemen and makers of interrogation transcripts. The law 306
