The court ruled. The attacker from Spišská Stará Ves goes into custody

The Specialized Court in Pezinok decided to remand the accused Samuel in custody. In the background of the decision, one of the victims was buried at the other end of Slovakia.

The Specialized Court in Pezinok decided to impose custody on the accused Samuel S.

At the same time, on Sunday (19 January), an 18-year-old student who was the victim of Thursday's knife attack at the gymnasium in Spišská Stará Ves was buried in eastern Slovakia.

The court sent him to custody

The Specialised Criminal Court (SCC) in Pezinok has taken the student accused in the case of the attack at the gymnasium in Spišská Stará Ves into custody.

The decision of the pre-trial judge is not yet final, the accused has retained the deadline for filing a possible complaint. The court spokeswoman Katarína Kudjáková informed about it.

"The reason for the detention is the fear that the accused might flee or continue his criminal activity, i.e. escape and preventive detention," the spokeswoman said, adding that the judge rejected the accused's motion to impose supervision by a probation and mediation officer.

The prosecutor waived his right to file a complaint against the detention decision.

The student faces charges of the particularly serious crime of premeditated murder, partly completed and partly attempted. The prosecutor of the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Prešov filed a motion to take the accused into custody on Saturday (18 January).

Monika Podstavková covered the topic of the transport of the attacker to Pezinok:

Last farewell to a young student

Two people, the deputy headmistress and a student, were killed in the attack at the gymnasium in Spišská Stará Ves, while another student was hospitalised by medics.

Police said on Saturday that they had charged an 18-year-old student with premeditated murder and suggested that he be taken into custody.

Relatives and friends said goodbye to the 18-year-old student in the village of Spišské Hanušovce, where she lived. A gifted and smiling third-year student at the gymnasium, she loved books and playing the piano, sang beautifully and wanted to become a doctor.

The family did not wish her to be disturbed in her grief and pain. Therefore, only invited guests were allowed to go to the cemetery.

The mother of the murdered student is a high school teacher and it will not be easy for her to return to the place where her daughter died.

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