His most recent articles focused on a Slovak oligarch, Marian Kocner, and his companies. In October, Mr. Kuciak wrote on Facebook that he had filed a report on Mr. Kocner for threatening him the previous month. She and other opposition politicians called for Mr. Kalinak, the interior minister, to step down because, they said, the police had failed to protect Mr. Kuciak. On Monday night, candles were lit in Bratislava and other cities in Slovakia and in Prague in memory of the slain journalist and his fiancée. “Murder of a journalist is a murder of society, of the voice of public and of our values.”

Source: New York Times February 26, 2018 21:57 UTC