The perpetrator of an attack on a pub in Slovakia's capital, Bratislava, which left two people dead, had originally intended to kill the country's prime minister, Eduard Heger, police said.
Demonstration in Bratislava, Slovakia, denouncing the attack on an LGTBI pub that resulted in the death of two people.
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The chief of the Police, Stefan Hamran, has advanced this information to the television channel JOJ, emphasizing that the attacker, a young man of 19 years, had been in the vicinity of Heger's home the same night of the event.
The perpetrator of the attack, who was carrying a firearm, approached the Prime Minister's private residence on several occasions, but when he realized that Heger was not there, he decided to change his target and went to the Bratislava pub, frequented by members of the LGTBI community.
According to Harman, the attacker had intended to kill Prime Minister Heger for some time.
The attack took place on the night of October 12 in a bar defined by its owners as "close to the gay community in the center of Bratislava".
After shooting two people and wounding a third, the perpetrator, identified as Juraj K., was found dead the next day near the headquarters of the Ministry of Education after committing suicide.
Previously, the young man had posted several messages on social networks that included homophobic and neo-Nazi hate speech.
The event sparked unrest among the Slovak population, which called for demonstrations the following day. Criticism even extended to Heger's own party, the conservative Common People, for having in its ranks members of parliament critical of the homosexual community.
The chief of the Police, Stefan Hamran, has advanced this information to the television channel JOJ, emphasizing that the attacker, a young man of 19 years, had been in the vicinity of Heger's home the same night of the event.
The perpetrator of the attack, who was carrying a firearm, approached the Prime Minister's private residence on several occasions, but when he realized that Heger was not there, he decided to change his target and went to the Bratislava pub, frequented by members of the LGTBI community.
According to Harman, the attacker had intended to kill Prime Minister Heger for some time.
The attack took place on the night of October 12 in a bar defined by its owners as "close to the gay community in the center of Bratislava".
After shooting two people and wounding a third, the perpetrator, identified as Juraj K., was found dead the next day near the headquarters of the Ministry of Education after committing suicide.
Previously, the young man had posted several messages on social networks that included homophobic and neo-Nazi hate speech.
The event sparked unrest among the Slovak population, which called for demonstrations the following day. Criticism even extended to Heger's own party, the conservative Common People, for having in its ranks members of parliament critical of the homosexual community.
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