Hedvig Malina was born on 1983 and is an ethnic Hungarian woman from Horne Myto, Slovakia, whose situation gained publicity in 2006 for claiming that she was physically assaulted in a hate crime incident.
16 Facts About Hedvig Malina
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Hedvig Malina took her case to the European Court of Human Rights, challenging what she calls the "inhuman and humiliating" conduct of the Slovak officials.
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Some two weeks after the incident, police closed the case, concluding that Hedvig Malina made up the incident.
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Hedvig Malina explained that she had told the police several times that she did not remember whether she had been speaking Hungarian on her phone or to someone in the street.
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Hedvig Malina claimed she had been robbed, and her identity papers were later sent to her address.
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Hedvig Malina gave the parcel to the police only two days after receiving it because of a national holiday.
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Hedvig Malina had licked the stamp in an attempt to fix it back on the envelope after the police had asked her to turn over the entire package.
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Hedvig Malina married her Slovak boyfriend Peter Zak in February 2008 after years of being together.
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On 13 September 2006, Hedvig Malina announced that she was maintaining her initial claims, saying she was willing to take a polygraph test, and that she and her lawyer, Gabor Gal were considering reporting the case to public prosecutors because the victim had been interrogated for six hours during which officers tried to persuade her to withdraw her claims.
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Hedvig Malina did not make up the story regarding the assault in the park and she told the truth when she claimed that the attackers had been shouting that "in Slovakia people speak Slovak".
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Hedvig Malina was later identified as Peter Korcek, a former secret agent and currently a member of the Christian Democratic Movement, a Slovak political party.
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In September 2007, Chief Prosecutor Trnka decided to replace police investigators working on the case of Hedvig Malina's alleged perjury and start the investigation again.
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In December 2007, the Slovak police gave the video cassettes about the initial Hedvig Malina hearing to Roman Kvasnica, her lawyer.
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Hedvig Malina then took her case to the European Court of Human Rights, challenging what she calls the "inhuman and humiliating" conduct of the Slovak officials.
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Hedvig Malina commented her decision that she was not fleeing the prosecution procedure and possible court case in Slovakia and added that she just wanted to protect her children from repeated police harassment she had to endure.
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Hedvig Malina was at the centre of several conspiracy theories, which relate the case to the Slovak authorities or nationalists.