---
born: 2003
category: Extremism & Violent Networks
created: 2026-05-21
died: 2022-10-12
location: Bratislava, Slovakia
summary: Juraj Krajčík was a Slovak neo-Nazi who attacked the Tepláreň LGBTQ+ bar
  in Bratislava in October 2022, killing two, after Terrorgram Collective mentorship
  by Pavol Beňadik from age 16, becoming Terrorgram's first designated saint.
tags:
- Person
- TerrorgramCollective
- NeoNazi
- Accelerationism
- AntiLGBT
- Slovakia
- MassShooter
updated: 2026-05-21
---

[Juraj Krajčík](/people/juraj-krajčík/) (approximately 2003 - October 12, 2022) was a 19-year-old Slovak who attacked the Tepláreň LGBTQ+ bar in Bratislava on October 12, 2022, shooting three people and killing two before taking his own life. He had been radicalized through [Terrorgram Collective](/organizations/terrorgram-collective/) channels from approximately age 16 (August 2019 onward), under the direct mentorship of Terrorgram co-founder [Pavol Beňadik](/people/pavol-beňadik/) ("Slovakbro"), who had called publicly in his channels for "saints" to emerge from Slovakia. The Bratislava attack was identified within the Terrorgram community and subsequently by researchers as the network's first attributed "saint" event - a milestone in Terrorgram's radicalization pipeline becoming operational.[^1]

### Radicalization

Krajčík joined Beňadik's Terrorgram channels in approximately August 2019 at age 15 or 16, during the period when the post-[Christchurch](/people/brenton-tarrant/) accelerationist ecosystem was migrating to Telegram. Over the following three years, Beňadik directly mentored him through the network's radicalization content - the [Saints Culture](/concepts/saints-culture/) framework, accelerationist neo-Nazi ideology, and Terrorgram's three major publications. Beňadik's channels explicitly called for "saints" from Slovakia, framing aspiring attackers as participants in a sacred tradition whose most recent exemplar was Tarrant.

Krajčík cited Beňadik by his alias "Slovakbro" in the manifesto he left before the attack, naming him as a direct influence and mentor. He also identified Payton Gendron (the May 2022 Buffalo supermarket shooter who killed ten Black people) as his "final nudge," indicating the Buffalo attack served as his immediate operational trigger.[^2]

Beňadik had been arrested by Slovak authorities in May 2022, five months before the Bratislava attack. Following Beňadik's arrest, [Dallas Humber](/people/dallas-humber/) became Krajčík's primary Terrorgram contact. The arrest came too late to interrupt the radicalization Beňadik had already set in motion. Krajčík proceeded with the attack based on years of prior mentorship.

### The Attack

On the evening of October 12, 2022, Krajčík drove to Tepláreň, a bar in the Old Town district of Bratislava popular with the city's LGBTQ+ community. He opened fire on the bar's exterior area and entrance, killing Matúš Horváth and Juraj Vankulič (Vankulič was non-binary) and wounding Radka Trokšiarová. He then fled. The following morning, he died by suicide in a Bratislava park. Slovak police recovered his body and his manifesto, a 65-page document written in English that detailed his Terrorgram radicalization, his admiration for Tarrant and Gendron, and his explicit framing of the attack as a contribution to the "saint" tradition.[^1]

The Bratislava attack was the first mass-casualty event directly attributed to Terrorgram's mentorship infrastructure. Within Terrorgram channels, [Dallas Humber](/people/dallas-humber/) designated Krajčík as "St. Juraj Krajčík, Tarrant's sixth disciple and Terrorgram's first saint," elevating him to saint status in the Saints Culture format and circulating his attack as promotional material to inspire subsequent attackers.

### Prosecution Record

Because Krajčík died at the scene by self-inflicted gunshot, he faced no prosecution. The attack's consequences fell on Beňadik, who had been arrested before the attack but whose channels had provided the years of radicalization Krajčík drew on. Slovak prosecutors cited the Bratislava attack explicitly in Beňadik's trial. In Canadian sentencing proceedings for co-founder [Matthew Althorpe](/people/matthew-althorpe/), Justice Jane Kelly listed the Bratislava attack as one of six that Althorpe's publications had inspired, tying Terrorgram's content directly to Krajčík's violence through the network Althorpe helped build.[^3]

[^1]: RSIS. "Bratislava Shooting: The Making of Terrorgram's First Saint." https://rsis.edu.sg/rsis-publication/rsis/bratislava-shooting-the-making-of-terrorgrams-first-saint/
[^2]: ProPublica. "Telegram, Terrorgram Collective, Bratislava Murders." https://www.propublica.org/article/telegram-terrorgram-collective-bratislava-murders-neo-nazi-online-hate
[^3]: Public Prosecution Service of Canada. "PPSC Sentencing Announcement, Matthew Althorpe." March 27, 2026. https://www.ppsc.gc.ca/eng/nws-nvs/2026/27_03_26.html