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Fico: 25 Police Officers to Be Sent to Hungary Due to Migration Crisis

Fico: 25 Police Officers to Be Sent to Hungary Due to Migration Crisis

Bratislava, July 29 (TASR) – Another group of 25 Slovak police officers will leave for Hungary on Monday to help the country safeguard its border with Serbia, Slovak Premier Robert Fico announced on Friday. Apart from this, Slovakia will soon renew its mission to Macedonia, dispatching 30 officers to help that

Van Carrying Migrants Crashes in Police Chase at Slovak-Austrian Border

Van Carrying Migrants Crashes in Police Chase at Slovak-Austrian Border

Bratislava, July 9 (TASR) – A van carrying illegal migrants from Iraq, Syria and Iran crashed near the Jarovce-Kittsee crossing on the Slovak-Austrian border on Saturday morning after a Slovak police patrol attempted to halt the vehicle that seemed suspect, Police Corps spokesman Michal Slivka told TASR later in the day.

Most-Hid Draws Up Proposed Changes in Police and Prosecutions

Most-Hid Draws Up Proposed Changes in Police and Prosecutions

Bratislava, June 28 (TASR) – The governing coalition Most-Hid party views suspicions of intentional failures to investigate potential tax fraud as very serious and an element that weakens the public’s trust in state institutions, party representatives stated at a meeting of the Most-Hid presidium on Monday (June 27). Therefore, Most-Hid

Drivers to Receive Lemons from Children for Small Traffic Infringements

Drivers to Receive Lemons from Children for Small Traffic Infringements

Bratislava, May 23 (TASR) – A traffic operation called ‘Apple-Lemon’ began on Slovak roads on Monday and will run until Friday, TASR learnt on the same day. Under this event, drivers will receive fruit instead of fines. If they violate traffic rules, they will get a lemon, and if they obey

LSNS: Police Return All Arms and Licence to MP Krupa

LSNS: Police Return All Arms and Licence to MP Krupa

Banska Bystrica/Bratislava, April 4 (TASR) – Police on Monday returned all firearms and the licence to carry them to Kotleba-People’s Party Our Slovakia (LSNS) MP Peter Krupa, who saw them seized in late March, LSNS vice-chairman Rastislav Schlosar told TASR on Monday. When confiscating Krupa’s arms, police told

RegioJet Train Leaves Poprad Station Late Due to Bomb Scare

RegioJet Train Leaves Poprad Station Late Due to Bomb Scare

Poprad, March 31 (TASR) – The bomb alert on a RegioJet express train heading from Prague to Kosice at the Poprad railway station on Thursday turned out to be a hoax, Presov Fire and Rescue Corps operation centre told TASR on Thursday. “The hold-up and subsequent lengthy scanning of the train

Alleged Nephew Swindles Elderly Couple Out of Thousands

Alleged Nephew Swindles Elderly Couple Out of Thousands

Nitra, March 11 (TASR) – An unknown man conned an elderly couple from Topolcany (Nitra region) out of €5,000 on Thursday by means of the old trick of posing as their nephew and asking them to lend him money, Nitra regional police spokesperson Renata Cuhakova told TASR on Friday. “The