The Court has communicated to the Government of Slovakia of the application Lučanský v. Slovakia and requested that they submit their observations.

The case concerns the death of a former Chief of Police in 2020 while in detention on remand and awaiting trial on charges of accepting bribes, and the Slovakian authorities’ ensuing response. The official investigation concluded suicide, but his son, who lodged both applications in the case, questions some of the findings. 

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