LAST OCTOBER a group of skinhead youths
brutally attacked customers in front of the Mariatchi Bar in downtown
Nitra, a popular student hangout, and broke the leg of the bar’s owner.
Though the attack was recorded via the town’s street cameras and the
attackers’ faces are visible, the police have waited until now to charge
the perpetrators, the Sme daily wrote in its January 28 issue.
October’s attack was not the only such
incident to have occurred at Mariatchi. On New Year’s Eve, customers
were attacked by neo-Nazis from Walhala, a neighbouring club. Though it
is officially listed as a “private card-playing club”, it is a pub whose
clientele regularly gets drunk and misbehaves, owner of Mariatchi Bar
Radovan Richtárik told Sme.
Walhala's Facebook page is administered by four men, three of whom
ran in the parliamentary election for the party of current Banská
Bystrica regional governor, Marian Kotleba. When addressed by Sme, the
public relations department of Banská Bystrica Region refused to answer,
claiming that the governor’s private contacts with citizens are not
subject to public interest, according to the law on free access to
information.
The police are still investigating the attacks, said Nitra regional
police spokesperson Renáta Čuháková, adding that they will soon close
the investigation of October's attack. If found guilty of rioting and
causing bodily harm, the youths could get up to two years in prison, Sme
wrote.
The police do not suspect the attackers of extremism, since during
the attack they were not brandishing symbols or making gestures
associated with extremism, as reported by Sme.
Source: Sme
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