Petőcz Kálmán (szerk.): National Populism and Slovak - Hungarian Relations in Slovakia 2006-2009 (Somorja, 2009)
Annex
The Case of Hedviga Malinová performed such a test back then as forensic experts established that the envelope’s sealing strip did not contain any saliva at all. The only saliva matching that of Malinová was found on the reverse side of the postal stamp; however, Malinová never denied that she had licked and re-stuck the fallen-off stamp. The experts were unable to conclude who had written the inscription on Malinová’s blouse and her address on the envelope. They compared them to handwriting specimens provided by Marcel Grzyb and Róbert Benci, two suspected assailants from police identikits; however, their conclusion was that “it was impossible to confirm or to rule out” the match with either suspect’s handwriting, mostly because the perpetrators wrote on a soft cloth in capital letters and also because the investigators who had secured the blouse failed to secure referential material as well. According to the graphologist’s testimony, they were only interested in whether there was T or ‘J’ at the end of the sentence “Madari za Dunaj” [‘Hungarians behind the Danube’] because if it was an T it would indicate that the text had been written by a person of Hungarian nationality; in fact, Danube in Hungarian is spelled Duna. Later the investigators took the envelope along with Malinová’s student’s record book and her passport application to the Institute of Criminal Expertise of the Slovak Police Force. A comparison of the address on the envelope and the inscription on the blouse showed that they had been written by the same person. While handwriting in the student’s record book and the passport application showed some similarity to handwriting on the envelope and on the blouse, according to forensic experts’ opinion it is quite normal in the case of capital letters; therefore, it was impossible to establish the match unambiguously.35 From the beginning, Malinová’s legal counsel Roman Kvasnica questioned trustworthiness of the forensic experts and demanded that the evidence be examined by independent experts. According to him, an institution that reports to the Slovak Police Force cannot be considered impartial, particularly when its experts are not listed on the official list of experts and are not legally responsible for their potential mistakes. AnOtI-IER AbusiVE VidEO dip On September 8, 2008, the YouTube server released another abusive video clip aimed against Hedviga Malinová that had been posted from a certain American server. The song titled Tupá piča [Stupid Cunt] was most probably recorded by a neo-Nazi band and teems with vulgarisms on the girl’s address. The song’s ‘lyrics’ say that no one will ever believe Malinová in 321
