The condition of the Slovak Prime Minister, Robert Fico, remains hospitalized, stable and conscious but serious. However, the two operations carried out – the last on Friday – give rise to optimism and a process of regenerationdeclared this Saturday the Vice President of the Government, Robert Kalinak.
Although there is improvement, Kalinak ruled out an immediate transfer to Bratislava from the Banská Bystrice hospital. “Several miracles have really occurred”stressed the Vice President of the Government, after ensuring that the patient’s “abdominal cavities” were in a deplorable state but “they are stabilizing.”
Juraj Cintula, arrested for shooting the Prime Minister of Slovakia five times and accused of first degree murderwill go to preventive detention for risk of flight and recidivism, as established by the Specialized Criminal Court of the town of Pezinok. Cintula, which has recognized his guilthas stated that he attacked because do not agree with their policies and wanted to hurt him, but he has denied that he wanted to kill him. The police have accused him of attempt to and faces the possibility of a sentence of between 25 years and life in prison.
The moment the attacker shoots Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico.
The profile of the attacker shows numerous contradictions: a critic of Fico opposed to violencebut which in the past aligned itself with ultranationalist and racist narratives.
Cintula comes from a region with high unemployment for the closure of coal mines during previous Fico governments and participated in several anti-government protests organized by the opposition since last December.
Fico’s health status
“His state of health is stabilized, but it is serious,” stressed the Minister of Health, Zuzana Dolinkova, who confirmed that the operation the day before, in which necrotic tissue was removed, has contributed to “a positive prognosis”. Despite this, “a transfer to Bratislava in the coming days has been ruled out, because his condition does not allow it,” he said.
Several countries have offered medical support for the prime minister, who “is conscious,” the vice president continued. “We appreciate offers from abroad for the postoperative period, but we have complete confidence in this hospital in Banská Bystrica and we are convinced that we are close to a positive prognosis,” Kalinak cautiously asserted.
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