Slovak prosecutor fired for contacts with suspect in journalist murder


  • World
  • Wednesday, 16 Jan 2019

FILE PHOTO: A man attends a protest rally in reaction to the murder of Slovak investigative reporter Jan Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova, in Bratislava, Slovakia April 5, 2018. REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa/File Photo

BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovakia's top prosecutor fired his deputy on Tuesday after he admitted having had online contacts with a woman held in custody on suspicion of ordering the murder of an investigative journalist.

The killings of Jan Kuciak, a reporter who wrote about political corruption and fraud, and his fiancée last year prompted the largest protests in Slovakia since the end of Communist rule in 1989.

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