- Fico respects the Constitutional Court’s decision to amend the Penal Code on penitents.
- Fico claims that the judges’ personal experience would change their opinion of penitents.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) respects the decision of the Constitutional Court (ÚS) of the Slovak Republic to suspend the effectiveness of the amendment to the Criminal Code, regarding the inapplicability of evidence obtained from a cooperating person, the so-called penitent. He says he will wait for the verdict on the matter itself. He informs about it in a video on the social network.
“I just want to remind you that if any judge of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic or the Prosecutor General encountered the practices of penitents in their own case, they would have a completely different opinion.” states Fico.
He notes that they should probably make more public presentations of the “antics” of the penitents so that the ÚS SR and the Prosecutor General understand “what atrocities they have committed” and why they cannot be trusted in any witness statement. He points out that he, as well as many others from his political camp, experienced these “dirty practices” firsthand.
The Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic has suspended the effectiveness of the amendment to the Criminal Code regarding the inapplicability of evidence obtained from a cooperating person. He did not comply with the proposal to suspend the effectiveness of the remaining part of the amendment to the Criminal Code adopted by the parliament last December. The decision related to the submission of a group of opposition MPs, which the court accepted for further proceedings.
