The investigating judge ordered the soldier's detention due to iteration risk. The prosecution suggested for the soldier to be examined by a psychiatry expert witness. The soldier will serve detention at the unit for forensic psychiatry at the Maribor University Medical Centre.

Before the court hearing, crime investigators attempted to talk to the soldier who had shot a police officer monitoring traffic on Friday. Due to the soldier's bewilderment and lack of response, the investigators had to stop the conversation multiple times. The prosecution has filed a demand for investigation of three criminal offences: murder, attempted murder and attempted robbery.

SVS won't help the soldier in criminal proceedings
Although the soldier is a member of The Soldiers' Trade Union of Slovenia (SVS), the latter announced after a conversation with the suspect that they condoned his deed and wouldn't help him in criminal proceedings.

The trade union will, however, help the soldier in labour law procedures against the employer, as the trade union is convinced that "the responsibility for the state of the soldier when he committed murder also lies with the Slovenian Army or its individuals who failed to act appropriately after several reports of mobbing".

Transfers are too slow
The soldier first filed a complaint due to mobbing in 2011 and had five conversations with the deputy commander of his troop, but no records of this exist, and the Slovenian Army hasn't carried out an investigation of alleged mobbing, noted SVS.

The Institute of Pension and Disability Insurance issued an executable order of invalidity in April, but the Army has failed to execute it accordingly in the four months before the incident. The Soldiers' Trade Union also pointed out that the chief of the general headquarters had been reminded several times in the past that the procedures of soldier transfers were too slow.

L. L.; translated by K. Z.