A 'radicalised teenager' shot dead two people outside a gay bar in Slovakia's capital Bratislava, Prime Minister Eduard Heger said.
People embrace one another near the site of a shooting in Bratislava, Slovakia October 13, 2022. REUTERS/Radovan StoklasaBRATISLAVA, Oct 13 - A "radicalised teenager" shot dead two people outside a gay bar in Slovakia's capital Bratislava, Prime Minister Eduard Heger said.
"I strongly condemn a murder of two young people shot dead in Bratislava last night by a radicalised teenager," Heger wrote on Twitter."No form of white supremacy, racism and extremism against communities, incl. LGBTI, can be tolerated," he added. Slovak media reported the main suspect had posted messages with the phrases "hate crime" and "gay bar" hashtagged on Twitter. The Dennik N news website said the attacker had posted a manifesto against the LGBT and Jewish communities before the killings.
"I want to say to the LGBT community, it is not you who don't belong here, it is not you who should be afraid to walk in the streets. It is hate that does not belong in Slovakia," she told reporters after visiting the scene of the attack.
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