On January 25, they found Petr Bučka hanging on a tree with their hands tied.
The former head of the Military Intelligence Service, Petr Bučka, was found hanging on a tree with his hands tied on January 25. His death raises a number of questions. The case shifted and an autopsy was performed.
Bučka’s body was found by the Danube at a place known as Angel’s Beach. Andrea Dobiášová from the Presidium of the Police Corps explained that an autopsy had been performed on the victim, but the expert report has not yet been prepared.
“The preliminary immediate cause of death was suffocation by hanging. Criminal proceedings are being conducted for the particularly serious crime of assassination and no person has been charged. Other procedural steps are underway in the investigation, so it is not possible to provide further information yet, “she said.
According to Dobiášová, despite the fact that the investigator has initiated criminal proceedings in the case of assassination, several investigative versions are being worked on in the case, of which none of them has been definitively confirmed or refuted so far on the basis of the evidence obtained. “It is premature to draw any conclusions,” she added.
The former head of military intelligence lived in a block of flats in Bratislava’s Karlova Ves. Our information shows that his wife first reported his missingness, and then the police apparently questioned the neighbors when they last saw him. It was Tuesday morning, January 25, a few hours before they found his body.