News digest: Internationally wanted Slovak hiding in US back home
Eastern Slovakia is drawing investment interest, interview with popular science communicator, and tip for week-long event.
Good evening. Here is the Monday, June 24 edition of Today in Slovakia - the main news of the day in less than five minutes.
After more than a decade in hiding, wanted Slovak is back in Slovakia
In recent days, Interpol Bratislava transported a convicted Slovak citizen, V. B., from Los Angeles, USA, to Slovakia. (Source: Facebook/Slovak police)More than 10 years ago, the District Court in Nitra issued an international arrest warrant for a former policeman. He was convicted of abusing the power of a public official as well as the offence of bodily harm.
Now, Interpol has sent him back to Slovakia. He had been hiding in California the last couple of years.
"Immediately after his arrival, he was delivered to the prison, where he will spend the next four years," the police announced on social media.
During the performance of his duties in 227, he physically assaulted a man in a bar in the village of Štitáre, Nitra Region. Two years later, he was dismissed from the police force because he was deemed "unfit to perform any function in the civil service".
In 2013, the ex-policeman was sentenced to four years in a minimum-security institution. However, by then he was already on the run. He canceled his permanent residence, officially residing in the city of Nitra as a homeless person. The police found out that he and his girlfriend had been staying in Fresno, California, but at an unknown address.
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FEATURE STORY FOR MONDAY
No absolute certainties
Samuel Kováčik. (Source: SME - Jozef Jakubčo)"I never say I'm 100 percent sure or unsure about pretty much anything. People need to learn to operate based on this, and once they accepts this, they start to understand how science works," Samuel Kováčik, theoretical physicist and science communicator known as Vedátor, says in an interview with The Slovak Spectator.
EVENT FOR THIS WEEK
Guitar festival
Illustratory image. (Source: TASR)Taking place every day of the last week of June, the 48th edition of the J. K. Mertz Guitar Festival once again brings classical music to Bratislava, hosting musicians from 8 countries, including Brazil, Spain, Portugal and more. The concerts will take place in the most beautiful concert venues of the historic city centre. Grab your tickets here.
IN OTHER NEWS
- This year's spring in Slovakia was very warm, mainly due to extreme temperatures in the first half of the season, reports the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute (SHMÚ). Temperatures in March were abnormally to exceedingly abnormally warm, with the maximum reaching 25.6 °C. The highest temperature in April was just shy of 30 °C, while the record in May stood at 28.9 °C. (TASR)
- From January until the end of May, more than 487,000 passed through M.R. Štefánik Airport in Bratislava, an 8 percent increase compared to the same period of 2023. The most popular regular flight destinations included London, Milan, and Skopje. (TASR)
- On Monday, the European Union gave €2.967 billion from emissions trading revenues to support 39 cleaner energy projects in ten EU member states, with Slovakia receiving €35 million. The investments will support the modernisation of energy systems, the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in energy, industry and transport, and improvements in energy efficiency. (TASR)
- On Saturday, a 44-year-old assaulted a patient and medical staff members at the University Hospital in Bratislava's Kramáre locality. If proven guilty, he faces a prison sentence of up to three years. A police investigator has proposed custody for him. According to the hospital, the family of the man in question has threatened its medical staff with 'physical liquidation'. (TASR, SITA)
- As many as 42 percent of Slovaks are worried about how they will live in retirement, according to results of an online survey, carried out by the Focus Agency on a sample of 1,006 respondents aged between 18 and 64. The survey showed that another 31 percent of people do not think about it at all, while 21 percent are looking forward to their retirement. The remaining 6 percent declared that they will not retire. As many as 77 percent of respondents think that current pensioners in Slovakia are often in financial trouble. (TASR)
Noctilucent clouds over the village of Fulianka, eastern Slovakia. They are composed of tiny crystals of water ice and reflect sunlight. They are often observed in summer months. (Source: TASR)WEATHER FOR TUESDAY: There will be light cloud cover, with daytime temperatures of between 27°C and 32°C, in the Liptov, Orava and Spiš regions up to 25 °C. (SHMÚ)
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