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Europol should investigate Slovak murder, MEP says

Europol, the joint EU police agency, should co-investigate the murder of journalist Jan Kuciak with Slovak authorities, Claude Moraes, a British centre-left MEP who visited Slovakia as part of a European Parliament mission last week, has said. "All the indications are that it is an organised mafia-style killing and we think not enough is being done," he told British newspaper The Guardian. Europol is already assisting Slovak police on forensics.

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