Still a brutal murder that shouldn't have happened

Let us think of the victims' families.

Marian Kočner, Alena Zsuzsová, Tomáš Szabó and Miroslav Marček will no longer exchange secret messages about snow, dreams, and teeth. They will hear the prosecutor tell them the story of the murder that opened up wounds. Wounds in the families that will never heal.

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The investigation has uncovered the inner workings of the underworld that felt so protected that it murdered journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová. Thanks to investigators and journalists we now know that any kind of imagination would be too little to contain the dimensions of this underworld.

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This murder and all that led up to it are an example of the worst version of the country we live in.

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