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A makeshift memorial to the three victims of the shooting in Bratislava in October at a gay bar (Photo: Wikimedia)

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Shock gives way to division after Slovak gay bar shooting

A makeshift memorial to the three victims of the shooting in Bratislava in October at a gay bar (Photo: Wikimedia)

Despite the immediate shock and outburst of solidarity after the recent terrorist attack by a 19-year-old sympathiser of far-right conspiracies, Slovak society appears to be absorbed in even deeper ideological divisions on issues related to gender and sexual orientation.

Two people were shot dead and a woman was injured on 12 October while sitting at a table outside a gay bar on Zamocka Street in the capital, Bratislava, with the perpetrator escaping the scene and shooting himself ear...

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