Ján Molnár, who was sentenced in the case of the murder of Dutch Gabrielly Widdershoven -Groen for a life imprisonment, died. “On 17 June 2025, the hospital for the accused and convicted and the Constitution for the sentence of imprisonment of Trenčín to the death of an 83-year-old convicted person,” said Anna Bečková Ragasová of the Prison and Judicial Guard Corps (ZVJS), writes a web.
In 2020, Molnar tried to get freedom after serving a 25-year sentence and applied for conditional release. On the day of the court, however, the District Court in Trnava announced the withdrawal of the application for release. In addition to the murder, he was also convicted of an attempt to murder Gabriell’s husband René Widdershoven. A brutal act occurred in 1990 in Austria.
“In the 1990s, criminalists employed a number of serious crimes of violent character, one of the extremely serious was the murder and attempt They committed two Slovak citizens Molnár and Ľubor Masár. They were citizens who used the euphoria of the opening of our state borders after November 1989. They traveled across Europe, but their intention or resolution was not to represent Slovakia in the good sense, but rather in the negative, because they committed criminal activity in the territory of several states“said the former head of Slovak investigators and today’s university teacher Jaroslav Ivor.
According to him, both in a car park in Austria, a married couple from the Netherlands, who also traveled around Europe to his caravan, selected. In this parking lot, in a brutal way, they murdered a Dutch citizen and thought they were also murdered by her husband. Both were thrown out on the junkyard along the highway, and the husband survived and after intensive health care was saved.
“One of the key evidence, of course, among others, because, for example, things that were stolen to their victims were also a camera. It was such an interesting thing in the sense that The Dutchman shot his wife with a dog with whom they traveled and caught the arrival of a car with Slovak citizens who got off and approached them on the lawn on the camera.. Under the pretext of renting some tools, they got to them and later murdered. So the interesting thing is that The victim shot on the camera of his future killers“Ivor said.
He added that this evidence was then used in the proceedings. “Here it should be mentioned that Examination of the case and conviction assumed very good work of the police, investigators and also cooperation with Dutch police investigators, who allowed the Dutchman’s questioning to our investigators directly in the Netherlands on a hospital bed, “the former investigator said.
Molnár and Masár were one of the first to be sentenced to life after the gentle revolution. Both were before, under the former regime, judged for various crimes. However, they were released, as they were covered by the amnesty of the then President Václav Havel. They raped the Dutch and then tickled in August 1990. The husband was tied, seriously injured and fired out of the car. However, he survived the attack and later testified to the court against the perpetrators. Both criminals were sentenced to life imprisonment in Bratislava. The Dutch body was found at a significant stage of decomposition after about two months.
