剧情简介
2022丹麦纪录片《The Killing of a Journalist》由Matt Sarnecki导演,影片讲述的是:
When an investigative journalist and his fiancée are brutally murdered and Slovakia’s police fail to question the prime suspect protests for justice erupt and a leaked case file reveals corruption so rampant democracy itself may not survive
On the night of February 21 2018 investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová both just 27 years old were brutally murdered in their home It was the first targeted killing of a journalist in Slovakias history and shocked citizens protested on a scale not seen since the fall of communism Kuciak was well known for covering questionable financial connections between politicians and elite business tycoons namely millionaire Marián Kocner When police failed to meaningfully investigate the prime suspect journalists mobilized the public Leaked files Kuciaks posthumous reports and civic outcry led to scandalous discoveries of decadesold corruption networks involving Kocner and the police chief highranking bureaucrats and the prime minister himself But when prosecution efforts turn up honeypot schemes paid assassins and dubious political appointees instead of delivering justice democracy itself may not survive in one of the European Unions most jawdropping corruption scandals