The Slovak Prime Minister, Robert Ficois found in very serious condition after being the victim of a shooting this Wednesday morning. “The next few hours will be decisive”the Government has stated in a statement in which it explains the delicate situation of the leader, who is being treated at the Banská Bystrica hospital, more than 200 kilometers from the capital, Bratislava.
While Fico torn between life and deaththe authorities are trying to clarify the reasons for the assassination attempt which took place in front of the House of Culture in the city of Handlová, in the center of the country. For now, the police have identified the alleged attacker, stopped immediately at the scene, as Juraj Cintulaa 71-year-old retired poet from Levice (a town in the southeast of Slovakia).
Apparently, Cintula, who was part of the Association of Slovak Writers and the founder of a literary group, would have used a licensed weapon to shoot at point blank range to the populist president, according to Nový Čas. In a video filmed by a television camera and broadcast on social networks, you can hear the detonation of up to four gunshots and, shortly after, you can see how Fico collapses next to one security fence which he had approached to greet a group of people.
Moment of arrest of the alleged perpetrator of the shooting.
[El primer ministro eslovaco Robert Fico, en estado crítico tras ser disparado en el abdomen]
The Slovak portal Aktuality.sk claims to have contacted with the son of the alleged perpetrator of the shots. “I don’t have the slightest idea what he intended, what he planned, why this happened,” he declared to the aforementioned newspaper. Likewise, the detainee’s son has denied that his father had ever mentioned attacking the politician or that he was under psychiatric treatment.
According to this medium, Cintula worked for a private security service in 2016, when he himself was the victim of an attack in a Levice shopping center. After that incident he co-founded the Movement Against Violence.
It has not yet been confirmed whether there is a political motivation behind the attack against Fico, leader of the game Smer-SD and known for stirring pro-Russian and anti-Western discourse). However, the Minister of the Interior SlovakMatus Sutaj Estok, has indicated that the authorities suspect that the attack has a political motivationcollect Reuters.
The attack occurs just a few weeks before the celebrations the elections to the European Parliament. So, sentence Because of what happened, it has been unanimous in all the countries of the European Union, its institutions and, also, in NATO.
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