Petőcz Kálmán (szerk.): National Populism and Slovak - Hungarian Relations in Slovakia 2006-2009 (Somorja, 2009)
Annex
Annex - Marie Vrabcová grandmother several questions in the doorway; then they left and returned with a revised transcript for them to sign. The police never took Benci’s fingerprints, DNA sample or a handwriting specimen; they did not even ask this jobless truant about his means of subsistence or the bums he rubbed shoulders with. On November 15, 2007, a group of investigators of the Malinová case from the special task force walked and ran the route from the Nitra bus station to the university’s Hungarian department in order to establish the time it took the victim to cover the distance.27 In the experiment that according to the Code of Criminal Procedures serves to verify testimonies given by witnesses and the accused as well as new facts established during investigation, a policewoman in mufti stood in for Malinová. The bus from Dunajská Streda the victim took that morning arrived at the Nitra bus station at around 7.10; the time established by the experiment was just enough for someone to cover the distance without stopping. It remains unclear whether Malinová actually took the examined route on the morning of August 25, 2006, because Malinová refused to testify before the special task force. Since the attorney general refused to disclose the motives behind the experiment, the can only be assumed what they aimed to prove: if two witnesses saw Malinová around half past seven in the birch grove, she could not possibly have been attacked before due to time constraints. HEdviqA MaIíinová vs. tIhe SIovaIc REpublic On November 22, 2007, Hedviga Malinová turned to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to object to Slovak law enforcement organs’ inhuman and humiliating treatment of her person.28 In her motion she did not demand any financial indemnification; all she wants is for the court to rule that her human and civil rights have been trampled on in Slovakia because law enforcement organs failed to investigate the circumstances of the attack on her. A week later, the Office of Attorney General notified Roman Kvasnica that the videotapes of his client’s interrogation had been referred to the Research Institute of Forensic Optics for analysis. The Office of Attorney General explained that investigators had used two cameras to make two separate recordings but both of them were of very poor quality, which is why they needed to be restored before they could be shown to the defence.29 On December 4, 2007, investigators from the special task force carried out further two experiments in the birch grove. This time, the Office of Attorney General aimed to establish how long it took the victim to cover 314
