Slovakia: Prime Minister Robert Fico seriously injured after being shot “in an assassination attempt”
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Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot several times this Wednesday and his life is in danger.
Fico was attacked as he was leaving a government meeting in the city handlovaNorth-east of Bratislava.
At a press conference after the attack, Defense Minister Robert Kalinek announced that his condition was “really complex” and that the Prime Minister had been in surgery for more than three hours “There was no good news.”
“We have pinned our hopes on the experts,” he said.
Local reports have claimed that He was injured in his stomach, arms and legs, An eyewitness told the BBC that he heard a total of three shots.
The alleged criminal was arrested by the police.
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A spokesman for the Slovak Interior Ministry described the incident as Attempts to murder.
Slovakian President Zuzana Caputova said she was shocked by the attack “Cruel and merciless.”
“I send her a lot of strength at this critical moment so that she can recover,” he said.
The country’s newly elected president, Peter Pellegrini, said: “I am horrified by where hatred for a different political opinion can lead.”
“We don’t have to agree with everything, but there are ways to express our disagreement democratically and legally,” he said.
Who is Robert Fico?
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Robert Fico becomes Prime Minister of Slovakia for the third time in September 2023 Leader of a nationalist populist coalition.
He won last year’s election on promises that included freezing military aid to Ukraine, but he denied being pro-Russian.
During the campaign he said, “We will not send a single round of ammunition to Ukraine.”
He has also been a vocal opponent of the sanctions imposed on Russia by Western countries.
In 2018, Fico was forced to resign as Prime Minister after six years in office following the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak.
Fico has been a prominent figure in the country’s politics since before independence in 1993.
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