Fourth Suspect For Cozma’s Murder Arrested

In a conversation with suspects, the police gained new information on the attack, so another suspect was arrested.

The Hungarian police have arrested a fourth person for the murder-by-stabbing of the Romanian handball player Marian Cozma, and the serous injuries to two of his fellow players from the team Veszprem in the city with the same name, reports the MTI agency.

Police spokesperson Agnes Beleznay said that after Gabor P was questioned he was kept in custody under suspicion that he participated in the murder.

The Romanian Marian Cozma, who played for the Hungarian handball club Veszprem, was killed on February 8 in a hooligan attack in front of a night club, in the city of Veszprem. In the attack the Croatian handball representative Ivan Pesic (23) was injured so seriously that doctors were forced to remove his kidney, and the Serbian handball player Zarko Sesum (22) was also injured.

The police were initially searching for two suspects, but then announced an APB for a third.

During the same night the Austrian police arrested two men suspected for the attack, and the Hungarian police later confirmed that Sandor Raffael and Gyoz N. were in question, and that Ivica Sztojka is still in hiding.

However Sztojka has been in custody since Thursday, when he handed himself in to the police, and it was considered that they arrested all of the attackers. But obviously the police came across new information about the tragic attack in a conversation with him, so a fourth suspect was arrested and placed in custody.