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Died on wednesday Milan Lucansky he was a former head of the Slovak national police who attempted suicide in custody on Tuesday, the Slovak public service news agency TASR reported, citing the family of the deceased and the Ministry of Justice.
According to a Slovak news agency, Milan Lucansky tried to commit suicide in pre-trial detention in Presov on Tuesday and died in a local hospital on Wednesday afternoon. So far no official information has been released about the exact circumstances of the senior police officer’s death. The former chief of the National Police was 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 series of income from arrests has been harshly criticized by the strongest members of the current Slovak parliamentary opposition, politicians from the previous government, who claim that Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovic is using the proceeds from police detention for political struggle. The case of the chief of police, who died in tragic circumstances, had been dusty for almost three weeks, when Lucansky had to be transferred to hospital from investigative captivity with a serious head injury sustained in previously unclear circumstances.
The specific causes of this prior 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 suicide attempt and death drew stronger criticism Igor Matovic against his government. In connection with what happened, he resigned from his position on Wednesday. Milan Ivan, Head of the Slovak Penitentiary Directorate (ZVJS).
The strongest opposition party in the Slovak parliament, the Robert Fico and the Directed Social Democracy (Smer-SD) anticipated that it would propose to convene an extraordinary session of parliament and remove the Minister of Justice, Mária Kolíková, nominated by the Liberal People (Za ludí). The latter was justified by the former Minister of the Interior, Robert Kalinák, arguing that the former police chief had been arrested despite reporting himself, subjected to psychological terror, and so far no witnesses or others had been questioned. suspects in your case.
(MTI)
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