Never Happened

The still unexplained murder of former police officer Robert Remiáš in 1996 which appears to have involved the Slovak secret service at the behest of those in the highest places remains a major blemish on the young Slovak democracy The year before the state directed the kidnapping of the son of the Slovak president with whom the then Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar had a dispute And Remiáš who was the only witness to the kidnapping became inconvenient