Petőcz Kálmán (szerk.): National Populism and Slovak - Hungarian Relations in Slovakia 2006-2009 (Somorja, 2009)

Annex

Annex - Marie Vrabcová

On May 9, 2009, Róbert Benci again manifested himself by throwing a flare on the playground during a first division football match between Nitra and Tmava. Although he was still on probation, the police qualified his act as a transgression as opposed to hooliganism,43 which would inevitably result in Benci’s serving the suspended sentence of three-month imprisonment for the incident before Old Theatre in Nitra.

On July 15, 2009, Dean of Comenius University’s Medical Faculty Peter Labaš informed the media in Nitra that the final expert’s opinion prepared jointly by university experts was taking so long to issue because experts’ views differed. He did not rule out a possibility that he would be the only one to sign the expert’s opinion. According to Labaš, former director of the Nitra hospital Viktor Žák who passed away in the meantime tried to sway the doctors to a conclusion that Malinová had been battered by the assailants.44 Not a single hospital doctor testifying before the special investigation team mentioned anything about Žák attempting to influence their conclusions; none of these doctors has been questioned ever since. The doctors testified that Labaš had visited them all but only to speak about the diagnosis. In reaction to the new development, Attorney General Dobroslav Tmka said that other doctors refused to sign the expert’s opinion because they were under pressure from the media that wanted them to confirm the attack on Malinová. Tmka again promised that the special team’s investigation would be concluded within a short period of time.

PecuIíar polyqRAph test resuIts

On July 16, 2009, the Office of Attorney General in a letter addressed to Roman Kvasnica refused to question the witnesses he had requested, i.e. Premier Robert Fico, Vice-Premier Dušan Caplovič, psychiatrists Jozef Hašto and László Sárközy and MP Peter Gabura; also, the Office of Attorney General considered it unnecessary to question again Zdeno Kamenický, Róbert Benci and his family and employees of the private detective agency from Nitra; finally, the Office of Attorney General refused to issue the transcript of the testimony in which investigator Ladislav Gužík admitted that he was under great pressure.

At the end of July 2009, i.e. almost eight months belatedly, Kvasnica received polygraph test protocols of Marcel Grzyb and Róbert Benci. As it turned out, their results were not nearly as unambiguous as the attorney general had presented in December 2008; Benci had to be tested again after his first test had been pronounced “unsuccessful” while Grzyb had to be tested by another methodology before the test confirmed that he had told the truth.45

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