Slovakia could treat the killing of two people outside a well-known gay bar in the capital Bratislava as an act of terrorism, a top prosecutor said on Friday, as investigators looked deeper into the shooting which has rattled the central European state.
The killings, investigated as a possible hate crime although police have yet to determine its motives, have sparked outrage from politicians and rights groups, and prompted the president to call for reflection on the political climate in the country.
On Friday, police and judicial officials said investigations so far showed no indications the killer knew his victims. Slovakia's President Zuzana Caputova stands next to her partner Juraj Rizman and the owner of a gay bar as a person lays a tribute at the site of a shooting in Bratislava, Slovakia October 13, 2022. REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa
Slovak media reported the suspect had posted messages with the phrases "hate crime" and "gay bar" hashtagged on Twitter, and he had posted a manifesto against the LGBT and Jewish communities before the killings."The suspicion is that the motive of this act was to destabilise society," he told a televised briefing. "These points lead us to the possible consideration that we could classify this criminal offence as an act of terrorism.
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