The Regional Court in Bratislava remanded a person in custody in the case of last week’s fire in the hall of the LPP Holding armory in Pardubice. However, since she filed a complaint, the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic will decide. This follows from the information provided to TASR by Pavol Adamčiak, the spokesman for the Bratislava courts.
- The Regional Court in Bratislava took the requested person into preliminary custody.
- The accused person filed a complaint in Slovakia, the Supreme Court will decide.
- The Pardubice District Court imposed custody on the other two accused perpetrators.
- The three defendants face suspicions of a terrorist attack and a terrorist group.
- The fire affected the hall of the LPP Holding armory in Pardubice after a terrorist attack.
The proposal for pre-trial detention was delivered by the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Bratislava on March 22. “On March 23, the Regional Court in Bratislava decided to take the requested person into preliminary custody, while the court did not replace the custody with the supervision of a probation and mediation officer,” stated Adamčiak.
District Court in Pardubice on Tuesday evening, March 24 decided on the detention of two other accused in the case, who were detained by the police in the Czech Republic. They are a woman and a man aged approximately 20 to 30 years. They are to be accused of committing a terrorist attack and participating in a terrorist group. The third person in the case was detained by criminal investigators in Slovakia.
The fire in the industrial area in Pardubice broke out last week on Friday, March 20, with a sudden explosion. The hall in which the fire started belongs to the Czech arms company LPP Holding, which, among other things, also produces drones. The attack was claimed by the previously unknown group The Earthquake Faction, which claims that its aim was to destroy the “epicenter of the Israeli arms industry” in Europe.
