At Wednesday’s main hearing in the case of the murder of student Daniel Tupý, all witnesses refused to testify. Three justified this by the fact that they could prosecute the prosecution. One of them reiterated several times that he was using his right not to testify, but he did not state why. Nor did the accused Adam P., who had already claimed in the past that he knows the real perpetrator of the murder. The City Court Bratislava I adjusted the hearing for 10 September.
According to the legal representative of the injured Roman, the witnesses who denied the notice on Wednesday were to move in a given place on the day and the time when the student was murdered. “Some of the facts they could testify were essential. However, it is debatable whether they could refuse to testify. But we respect that the judge has decided. evaluated the yeast.
According to the witnesses, the notification of the witnesses was not unexpected, according to the defender Adam P. Michaela Matušíková, as the witnesses did not speak in the pre -trial proceedings. “However, we considered it necessary to hear these witnesses in the present proceedings by knowing that there is another criminal proceedings in the case of complicity. So the circle of these witnesses who could be potentially interrogated there, which we neither influence, nor impact, and we cannot ask questions that they are already heard in the proceedings, ”she explained. But she could not determine when and whether Adam P. would testify.
Daniel Tupý was murdered on November 4, 2005 in the evening in Bratislava Park on Tyršovo embankment. The students attacked a group of men armed with knives and boxers on the Petržalský bank of the Danube. Several people suffered injuries.
The crime has caused a number of reactions condemning violence and manifestations of neo -Nazism. The police also worked in the past with the version that men from the underworld could be murdered. In the case they originally accused five people, Richard H. threatened ten to 15 years. The Bratislava I District Court freed them in June 2009.
