Gelnica (source: terraincognita.sk)
A man who was set on fire in the centre of Gelnica, a former royal mining town in eastern Slovakia, on Sunday, February 9, died from severe injuries in a hospital in Košice on Monday morning.
Police are treating the case as bodily harm, but the suspect is a minor and cannot be prosecuted.
The victim, 28-year-old Vasiľ Bandy, was confirmed by a family member to the Korzár newspaper as being mentally disadvantaged.
“Vasiľ was a kind soul, always smiling and never harming anyone. The girls who lived nearby made fun of him and ended up setting him on fire in the street,” a relative said while Bandy was still fighting for his life.
