Killed in front of gay clubs in Slovakia: who was Juraj K., the killer of fans of Breivik and Eichmann

Two days ago, two people were killed and one injured in a shooting outside an LGBTQ venue in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. The suspect is Juraj K., a teenage extremist, who injured a woman and killed two boys outside the Teplaren bar in the city centre. Then the killer was found dead, probably suicidal, on a street in the capital. The boy was already known to the police for posting anti-Semitic and homophobic posts on social media. Below is a translation of an article that appeared in the Slovak newspaper Dennik N that reconstructs the incident and explains who the killer was.

“Hey, see you on the other side,” wrote Juraj K., the attacker on Zámocká Street, just before midnight. In his manifesto, which he published just hours before the killings, he wrote that he wanted to continue the attacks. “If I survive the first day, I don’t want my other targets to know they’re on the list,” he explained.

Prime Minister Eduard Heger could also be a target for him, as Juraj K. took a photo in front of the building where Heger lives a few weeks ago. The prime minister has already confirmed that the published photo of the attacker was taken in front of his house.

At a press conference, the prime minister condemned the shooting and called for an end to such hateful gestures. Asked if he feared for his life, he said no.

“I’m not worried because I understand the difficult time we are living in,” said Heger.

Juraj K. did not commit any further murders, police found him dead on Thursday morning, just before eight, near the Ministry of Education building in Jasko rad.

According to Dennik N, Juraj K. returned to his parents’ home after the attack, where he traded one weapon for another. There was a fight between Juraj K. and his parents, the killer even wrote a farewell letter. He then left the house with his father’s gun. His parents didn’t call the police.

The attacker probably wandered around Kramár and the nearby park all night. Shortly after midnight, he took to Twitter, where he posted his manifesto, and to the website 4chan, where he posted his pictures of Bratislava at night. When users asked him to take a selfie with a shoe on his head if he had killed two men, Juraj K. did so immediately.

In the comments, he also wrote that he doesn’t feel sorry for the murdered homosexuals, but he is sad for his family.

Posts on the 4chan page disappeared overnight, the Twitter account was also deactivated in the morning.

Juraj K. grew up with a nationalistic worldview. His father ran for parliament in 2020 for Harabin’s Vlasť party.

On his Facebook profile, Juraj K. Sr. criticized President Zuzana Čaputová and the Heger government, expressed his pro-Russian views and recently called the new foreign minister, Rastislav Káčer, an “American puppet”.

He felt no remorse

Juraj K. was a talented student, but with behavioral problems. Educators we spoke to confirmed that he couldn’t find friends and it was hard for him to bear.

If he befriended someone, he was so numb and irritating with them that their friendships didn’t last long.

The teachers talked to Dennik N anonymously, because this is an extremely sensitive case and they mourn this tragedy, a young student killed two people.

Teachers who knew Juraj tried to resolve his problematic behavior, advised his father to seek help from a psychologist or psychiatrist, but he was unwilling to do so. He perceived it as a shame.

Juraj K. had no problems with learning. According to his teachers, he was very smart, they realized that from an early age. He attended a private primary school on Bajkalská Street in Bratislava.

“I’m really sorry about what happened. I won’t comment,” said school director Dana Jančinová.

However, he soon left this school to move to another one in Bratislava on Skalicka Street.

In his manifesto, which this young murderer posted on the Internet, he writes that he changed schools due to psychological problems and fights with classmates. He claims that he moved out due to bullying, but in connection with this he also writes that he behaved like a weakling because he couldn’t get over other people’s jokes.

It was very difficult for him to bear the fact that he couldn’t get along with his peers. He acted furiously and aggressively towards them. The teachers tried to help him. He also had such a bad relationship with a classmate that this boy moved to another school.

“His classmates avoided him, they didn’t want to talk to him, he couldn’t get along with them because he didn’t treat them properly,” said one of the elementary school teachers. “As if he had no inhibitions, he would say anything to his classmates. He was unbalanced. He could cry and suddenly get mad, furious,” adds another teacher.

Schools attended by the killer said the student did not express radical or hateful opinions in the classroom.

“We didn’t notice any negative expressions from him, any influence on the other students, and he didn’t express his radical and hateful opinions in class,” the school said in a statement, adding that he appeared to be an easygoing, easygoing type. .

“It was his inner world that he showed on social media and that we only learn after the fact,” they added from the school. In the declaration they condemned the forms and manifestations of violence and hatred.

The school regretted the news of the tragedy and condemned the forms and expressions of violence and hatred contained in the manifesto. They want to focus on their students. There will be meetings with students to help them deal with the tragedy.

Manifest

On the eve of the attack, on October 11, Juraj K. tweeted in English: “I’ve already decided.” He posted another post on the morning of the attack at around 10:00 am: “It will be done”.

The choice of bar was clearly not accidental: in mid-August, the young man took a photo in front of the establishment and posted it on Twitter.

Juraj K. was active on Twitter several hours after the attack, he responded to people. When asked to confirm his identity, he replied that he didn’t care about fame, so he didn’t publicly write his name anywhere.

In his 65-page English poster, Juraj also wrote about his life, which he described with moments of joy and depression.

According to the manifesto, Juraj K. was a fan of Donald Trump and a supporter of far-right movements. He spoke of his hatred of Islam.

In the manifesto he did not indicate links with Slovak extremism, he looked for his “models” abroad. He referred to two killers: Brenton Tarrant, who attacked mosques in New Zealand, and John Earnest, who attacked a synagogue in the United States.

However, he also cited other assassins motivated by far-right ideology. Both Tarrant and Earnest posted their posters on the 4chan forum, which is known for its large community of racists and anti-Semitic people.

As Juraj K. wrote, he found the courage to act after Payton Gendron, 18, killed 10 people in the US city of Buffalo in May of this year.

“Your live stream gave me new inspiration, a new impulse to do what needs to be done after years of procrastination. And in Gendron I saw myself: a young man with his whole life ahead of him, who decides to fight for something greater than than himself, for which he believes”, he writes in the manifesto.

Juraj K. also wrote that he has people from the LGBTI community around him and criticizes them for wanting to change genders at such a young age.

He posted pictures and texts of extremists on his Twitter account a few weeks before the attack. For example, he posted a photo of the Auschwitz concentration camp with the text: “You know in your heart that they deserved it.”

He also wrote in his tweets that race always comes first, posted photos of people he considered his role models, for example the Norwegian right-wing extremist Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in 2011, or Adolf Eichmann, the organizer of the Holocaust. Nazi and concentration camps.

He also posted a photo of him, in which he has three fingers extended as the letter W and his index finger bent into the letter P, which stands for White Power, a symbol used by white Californian racists.