Another journalist murdered - Slovakia

riffmongous

I saw today another investigative journalist was murdered along with their partner, this time in Slovakia

A Slovak investigative journalist and his partner have been murdered in a suspected assassination linked to the journalist's work.

Jan Kuciak, 27, and Martina Kusnirova were shot dead at the weekend at home in Velka Maca, a village 65km (40 miles) east of the capital Bratislava.

It was "most likely related to the journalist's investigative work", a police commander said.

Kuciak had written about alleged tax fraud involving luxury apartments.

There were protests last year over Interior Minister Robert Kalinak's alleged business dealings with a property developer. The minister denied wrongdoing and an investigation into suspected fraud was dropped.

Sad stuff, that at a time when journalistic standards seem to be slipping and there are so many hacks just linking to some twitter crap, that the ones interested in serious news and trying to expose corruption and crime have to put their lives on the line.

Fr_Dougal

Hopefully someone will come up with a hashtag soon so we can all help.

bear1

I read that this morning.
He was threatened back in October but weirdly when he reported it to the prosecutor it was ignored according to reports.
He was also investigating money stolen by the Italian mafia so he was dealing with very dangerous people.
Government putting a 1 million euro reward is a serious bit of money to tempt someone into talking.
Amazing how in countries like Mexico being a journalist is regarded as one of the most dangerous jobs around.
Also, another journalist murdered... who's the first one?

_Dara_

Read that earlier - sickening. Investigative journalists have brass balls.

_Dara_

bear1 wrote: »

I read that this morning.
He was threatened back in October but weirdly when he reported it to the prosecutor it was ignored according to reports.
He was also investigating money stolen by the Italian mafia so he was dealing with very dangerous people.
Government putting a 1 million euro reward is a serious bit of money to tempt someone into talking.
Amazing how in countries like Mexico being a journalist is regarded as one of the most dangerous jobs around.
Also, another journalist murdered... who's the first one?

Journalist in Malta about six months ago.

riffmongous

bear1 wrote: »

I read that this morning.
He was threatened back in October but weirdly when he reported it to the prosecutor it was ignored according to reports.
He was also investigating money stolen by the Italian mafia so he was dealing with very dangerous people.
Government putting a 1 million euro reward is a serious bit of money to tempt someone into talking.
Amazing how in countries like Mexico being a journalist is regarded as one of the most dangerous jobs around.
Also, another journalist murdered... who's the first one?

Well the maltese woman a few months ago was who I had in mind, but there were also a few murdered in Russia last year who never made the news

bear1

riffmongous wrote: »

Well the maltese woman a few months ago was who I had in mind, but there were also a few murdered in Russia last year who never made the news

I thought you were referring that another journalist was murdered in Slovakia.
Hadn't thought of the Maltese lady.

Chrongen

riffmongous wrote: »

I saw today another investigative journalist was murdered along with their partner, this time in Slovakia



Sad stuff, that at a time when journalistic standards seem to be slipping and there are so many hacks just linking to some twitter crap, that the ones interested in serious news and trying to expose corruption and crime have to put their lives on the line.

You should look up Mazan Dana, or Nicola Caliparia, or Giulia Sgrena and see people being shot dead because they're dangerous.

Gatling

Russia is one of the deadliest places for journalists ,even more so than a warzone especially since putin came to power ,
Mexico and Columbia were always dangerous places for journalists since the naro wars started by in the late 70s early 80's

rainbowtrout

That Swedish journalist Kim Wall was murdered and dismembered on a homemade submarine by the owner last summer.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/01/16/danish-inventor-charged-with-dismembering-and-killing-reporter-kim-wall-on-his-submarine/?utm_term=.47fecb78fe6c

Great example of a pointless piece of news that you never would have heard about even five years ago.

Casualsingby

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Hopefully someone will come up with a hashtag soon so we can all help.

Wonder what the hash tag will be when you pass #ThankF..k

rainbowtrout

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Great example of a pointless piece of news that you never would have heard about even five years ago.

Slovakian tax fraud may not have made the news internationally only for the fact that this murder happened but it serves to show that a journalist investigating tax fraud in their own country was killed doing their job investigating the crime.

We’ve had the same here just over 20 years ago with Veronica Guerin. Her story regarding drug crime in Ireland would probably not have been newsworthy in other countries, but her murder for following it up probably was. So much so that a film was made about it.

Bob Harris

riffmongous wrote: »

Well the maltese woman a few months ago was who I had in mind, but there were also a few murdered in Russia last year who never made the news

So how do we know they were murdered?

Hande hoche!

_Dara_ wrote: »

Read that earlier - sickening. Investigative journalists have brass balls.

Astonishing really. Compared to some of the counterparts basing an article about some mouth breathers' reactions on twitter.

ronjo

The problem with this is that Fico (Prime Minister) is strongly rumoured to be involved with some of the suspects.
He is living in a penthouse of one one of the dodgy property developers alledgedly.

suicide_circus

Play with fire, get burned. Brave people.

Few of the Central European countries are starting to looks more Russian lately.

riffmongous

Bob Harris wrote: »

So how do we know they were murdered?

Well made the international news, the deaths of journalists in Russia are so common they don't get reported outside of their local area much more