Petőcz Kálmán (szerk.): National Populism and Slovak - Hungarian Relations in Slovakia 2006-2009 (Somorja, 2009)
Annex
The Case of Hedviga Malinová Marcel Grzyb, the witness who resembled the person from the other identikit, failed again to show up for questioning; this time, he did not even receive the subpoena. The investigation team carried on by questioning the forensic experts who had analyzed handwriting on the blouse and biological samples. The neurologist from the Nitra hospital who had treated Malinová immediately after the attack on August 25, 2006, repeated that based on expert findings, x-ray pictures and CT scans he had diagnosed Malinová with a concussion and signs of acute stress. Former hospital director Viktor Žák who spoke to the victim in person shortly after she was brought to the hospital also repeated his expert and personal view that Malinová had been battered. The doctors and nurses from Nitra and Dunajská Streda who came in contact with Malinová all testified along the same lines. The doctor who treated Malinová in the ambulance that transported her from the university to the hospital said that Malinová shivered on the entire body; she said her blood pressure was 150/80, her pulse was 150 and her pupils were dilated, which usually indicates either stress or fear. Confronted with virtually unanimous views of his colleagues, forensic doctor Šimon Kónya stuck to his opinion, saying that while he did not contest his colleagues’ conclusions, their diagnoses did not correspond to objective findings. MaRRÍAQE, MERÍTS, MATERINÍTy On February 14, 2008, Hedviga Malinová entered into matrimony with Peter Žák. On March 7, 2008, the special task force finally got to question Marcel Grzyb. Upon arrival to the Office of Attorney General, Grzyb called the reporters waiting in front of the building hyenas and even attacked two of them.34 Grzyb did not hide his sympathies with extremist movements and admitted that he knew Róbert Benci by sight. He denied any connection to the attack on Malinová, saying that he was in Vienna at the time of the incident. He also said he had been summoned to the police shortly afterwards where investigators made a copy of his job attendance record. Even before the interior minister branded Malinová a liar, Grzyb told one private TV station that the student had made up the whole attack. When Roman Kvasnica asked him to corroborate this statement, Grzyb answered that the victim’s photographs published after the attack showed her face was not swollen and only “her cheek was somehow bloated”. On May 19, 2008, Malinová passed the state examination at the University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra, majoring with merits in Hungarian and German language. 319
