Harabin does not see Russia as an aggressor. He considers the prosecutor to be guilty
9. Apr 2025 at 10:41 I Updated at 11:17
I’m innocent, the prosecutor is guilty, he said.
Pezinok. Former Judge, Exminister of Justice and former head of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic Štefan Harabin on Wednesday stood before a single judge of the Specialized Criminal Court in Pezinok for the indictment for the crimes of defamation of race, nation and belief, and approval of a crime.
The process concerns the approval of a Russian invasion on Ukraine. Even before reading the indictment, Harabin called on the prosecutor to take the indictment back.
Before the hearing for the media, he repeated several times that Mask He’s not an aggressor. According to him, only the United Nations can decide on this. « We all know that the indictment is on the water, » he said.
He also stated to the prosecutor that he did not know the right. « I’m innocent, the prosecutor is guilty, » Harabin said.
On Wednesday afternoon the main hearing adjourned to 28 May. « The case is in the stage after opening the main hearing. The defendant is interrogated, who I do not know if he will continue the spontaneous part of the testimony at the next hearing and then he will certainly be asked to ask the media by the prosecutor of the Regional Prosecutor’s Office Trnava Martin Nociar.
The defendant described the whole process as the state arbitrariness against otherwise thinking people. The fact that Russia is an aggressor according to him challenged judgment UN International Criminal Court in Hague. According to him, the whole thing could be explained by UN Secretary -General Antonio Guterres, who could testify in court.
At the same time, Harabin accused the prosecutor of jeopardizing the existence of Slovakia by his actions, as Slovakia could cease to exist without Russian guaranteeing our southern border.
« I hope that the (prosecutor) is already on the list of Russian Prosecutor General, » Harabin added, adding that after the « special military operation » will « come » Nuremberg II « .
The process was to be started in March last year, but in the end there was no indictment. The judge of the Specialized Criminal Court in Pezinok Ján Buvala had to recover the hearing, as the defendant filed a complaint against the Supreme Court against the judge’s decision to accept the offered indictment.
Prosecutor of the former The Office of the Special Prosecutor’s Office He submitted to the former Minister of Justice and Commercial of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic Harabin the indictment in June 2023. Harabin wrote after the outbreak of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the social network that he would do exactly the same thing Russian President Vladimir Putin. « It is an obligation to pack the Nazis, » Harabin wrote.
He added that « power must sometimes use the world good ». In this context, several criminal complaints were filed for him by the then parliamentarians, such as Juraj Beast., ‘ Andrej StančíkChristian Čekovský, Ján Benčík or Ondrej Dostál.
The Specialized Criminal Court, originally after the indictment, decided to assign the case to the municipal court BRATISLAVA However, the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic annulled the decision.
