Slovak journalist likely the victim of contract killing

Slovak journalist likely the victim of contract killing | iNFOnews.ca
FILE - In this Friday, March 9, 2018 file photo Candles are placed in front of a photo of journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova during an anti-government rally in Bratislava, Slovakia. A Slovak prosecutor says an investigative journalist and his fiancee were slain on Feb 21. In a rare statement to reporters on Monday, March 26, 2018 the prosecutor whose name was not given for the first time determined the time of the slayings. The prosecutor also says all the circumstances suggest it was a contract killing. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – A Slovak prosecutor says circumstances in the deaths of an investigative journalist and his fiancee suggest it was a contract killing.

The prosecutor in a rare statement to reporters on Monday also said the two were killed on Feb. 21. The bodies of Jan Kuciak and Martina Kusnirova were found in their house four days later.

Police previously said the killings were likely linked to Kuciak’s work.

Kuciak had been reporting on alleged Italian mafia ties to associates of Prime Minister Robert Fico and corruption scandals linked to Fico’s leftist Smer-Social Democracy party.

The killings triggered a political crisis that resulted in large street protests and the government’s collapse.

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