Fico’s assassination attempt|Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was the victim of a shooting on Wednesday. The prime minister is still in intensive care.
Slovakian the court will hear the prime minister today Robert Ficon arresting a man suspected of being the shooter. A 71-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder.
According to Slovakian media, the person behind the shooting is a 71-year-old Juraj Cintula. Official sources have not confirmed the shooter’s identity. HS publishes the name already in the doubt stage due to the act’s exceptional social significance.
Fico, who suffered serious injuries, was operated on again on Friday and is still in intensive care. Fico was shot on Wednesday and hit by four bullets.
Case has shocked Slovakia deeply. The outgoing president of Slovakia Zuzana Caputova and Fico’s ally chosen as his successor Peter Pellegrini have called on Tuesday the leaders of all parliamentary parties to show unity after the shooting that shocked the country.
However, the case also raised political tensions. The country’s deputy prime minister and Fico’s close ally Robert Kalinak accused the opposition and “certain media” of labeling Fico as a criminal dictator and the president of Russia Vladimir Putin as a servant before the attack.
“All these lies are the main reason why Fico is fighting for his life today,” Kalinak said on the website of the Smer party.
Fico returned to power for the third time in Slovakia after last autumn’s elections, when his Smer party won the elections.
Fico, who sympathizes with Putin, opposes arms aid to Ukraine. Slovakia stopped supporting Ukraine after the election of Fico.
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