Slovakia: former head of the national police tries to commit suicide in pre-trial detention

Tried to commit suicide Milan Lucansky Former Slovak national police chief detained, in critical condition, as reported by Slovak news portals, confirmed by the Slovak Ministry of Justice.

The former head of the National Police is one of those detained by the Slovak National Law Enforcement Agency (NAKA) during its raids in November and December, which caused serious repercussions.

The police operation, organized under several different pseudonyms, mainly detained senior police, intelligence and other officials, as well as economic actors considered influential. Those involved were mostly prosecuted for corruption, money laundering, abuse of power or support for criminal activities.

The Slovak Ministry of Justice has yet to provide details about the suicide attempt, and its spokesperson promised more information about the case on Wednesday.

Lucansky’s case had been very dusty for almost three weeks, when the then head of the national police, who was in pretrial detention at the time, had to be transferred to hospital from pretrial detention in Presov with a serious head injury. acquired under hitherto unclear circumstances. The specific causes of this previous head injury to a senior police officer have not been clarified to date, and authorities have ruled out the possibility that the trauma was the result of outside intervention.

The strongest player in the Slovak parliamentary opposition, Robert Fico led by Directional Social Democracy (Smer-SD) and the former Prime Minister, Peter pellegrini La Voz-Socialdemocracia (Hlas-SD), founded by In these, expressed their previously expressed opinion that Igor Matovic The Slovak Prime Minister uses police detention for political fighting.