They testified before the Senate of the Municipal Court of Bratislava I in the case of last year’s kidnapping and intoxication of the student Sone two psychiatric doctors who treated the accused Ivo P. Both ruled out a mental disorder in the accused, for which the prosecutor’s office stopped criminal prosecution against him in the spring.
Based on the findings of these doctors, the prosecutor of the Bratislava Regional Prosecutor’s Office proposed to allow the retrial in the given case. The court adjourned the hearing to November 25. The proposals of the procedural parties are to be presented and the decision announced. They are also to decide on the prosecutor’s proposal to take the accused into custody.
In their testimony, both doctors ruled out that the accused could work as a paramedic for a long time due to simplex schizophrenia, which was initially diagnosed by another doctor. They also ruled out performing night work in the given disease. The primary care physician from the psychiatric hospital in Pezinok, where the accused is hospitalized, clarified that the presence of the given disease could not have been missed even by a psychologist during the examination that rescuers undergo every year.
The police received a report about the student’s disappearance last September. She was found unconscious and intoxicated near a hospital in Bratislava’s Petržalka. The investigator of the Bratislava regional criminal office charged Ivo P. from Bratislava with the crime of rape and the crime of restricting personal freedom. The court took the accused into custody. At the end of April, the prosecutor of the Bratislava regional prosecutor’s office stopped the criminal prosecution against Ivo P. due to his mental illness. At that time, the court issued a preliminary order for his placement in a medical facility.
