2022 Bratislava shooting
| 2022 Bratislava shooting | |
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| Part of right-wing terrorism in Europe | |
| Location | Zámocká 30, Bratislava, Slovakia |
| Coordinates | 48°08′41.2″N 17°06′04.5″E / 48.144778°N 17.101250°E |
| Date | 12 October 2022 c. 19:11 CEST |
| Target | LGBT community, Eduard Heger (failed) |
Attack type | Double murder, murder suicide, domestic terrorism, hate crime, homophobic hate crime |
| Weapon | Two Handguns:
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| Deaths | 3 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 1 |
| Perpetrator | Juraj Krajčík |
| Motive | Far-right extremism, Accelerationism Anti-semitism Homophobia White supremacy Transphobia Christchurch mosque shootings copycat crime |
On 12 October 2022, two people were killed (plus the perpetrator), and a third person was wounded in a shooting outside of the front entrance of Tepláreň, a gay bar in Bratislava, Slovakia, a well-known spot frequented by the local LGBTQ community. The shooting claimed two victims: Juraj Vankulič, a non-binary person, and Matúš Horváth, a bisexual man. The perpetrator was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot the morning after the attack.
The investigation classified the shooting as a terrorist attack and found that primary targets included high level politicians. According to the shooter's own words in the 4chan thread that he authored, "2-1 kdr, not my problem. wish i couldve gone higher but whatever. wanted to bag the prime minister but i didn't get lucky with his car arriving". The primary target was Eduard Heger; the attack on Tepláreň was a plan B.