2022 Bratislava shooting

The 2022 Bratislava shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on 12 October 2022 outside Tepláreň, a gay bar in Bratislava, Slovakia. A 19-year-old perpetrator shot and killed two people and wounded a third outside the venue's entrance. Following an investigation by the National Crime Agency (NAKA), Slovak authorities reclassified the incident from a hate-motivated murder to an act of domestic terrorism, designating it as the first terrorist attack in modern Slovak history. 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 on a 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. Provided by Wikipedia