Petőcz Kálmán (szerk.): National Populism and Slovak - Hungarian Relations in Slovakia 2006-2009 (Somorja, 2009)
Annex
The Case of Hedviga Malinová exercising her right to judicial protection and defend herself against state organs. He demanded the Constitutional Court to nullify the decision to abandon investigation as well as the decision of the Office of District Attorney that sanctioned the case investigator’s decision and to facilitate the case’s further investigation. MOHON foR CRÍMÍNaI pROSECUTÍON In February 2007, a new investigator was assigned to the case of false evidence given by Hedviga Malinová. On February 6, he first questioned seven classmates of Malinová who had seen her immediately after the attack." Six months after the incident took place, the case investigator asked witnesses about minute details such as who was where in the university’s hallway when Malinová arrived that morning, where exactly they saw the stains on her blouse and what size the stains were; one witness was even asked by the investigator to write on his back so as to see whether stains would remain on his shirt. On May 14, 2007, the police charged Malinová of having given false evidence and perjury.12 Exactly one week later, Roman Kvasnica on behalf of his client lodged a complaint with the Office of District Attorney in Nitra against the case investigator’s decision and demanded it to cancel the said decision and abandon criminal prosecution of Malinová. Despite repeated requests by Roman Kvasnica and despite its legal obligation to do so, the police refused to produce the blouse Malinová wore during the attack — the one that was so victoriously presented by the interior minister during the infamous press conference - the envelope in which she received her identity papers or the video footage of her interrogation of September 9, 2006. Meanwhile, on May 17, 2007, Chairman of Hungarian Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee Zsolt Németh called the lawsuit against Malinová staged and urged Slovakia’s law enforcement organs to act without prejudice. Prime Minister Robert Fico reacted by labelling Németh’s statement an outrageous interference with Slovakia’s internal affairs. On May 24, 2007, the District Headquarters of the Slovak Police Force in Nitra subpoenaed Malinová to testify as the accused; claiming that she was unaware of charges against her and that she considered Nitra members of the police force to be biased, the girl refused to testify. During this questioning it turned out that Juraj Kubla, a man from Šaľa who had also filed a motion for Malinová’s criminal prosecution on grounds of deceiving authorities, could not be questioned anymore because he had committed sui-305
