Fico, stable in the hospital although with a very serious prognosis

“In the course of the night, doctors were able to stabilize the patient’s condition“said Defense Minister Robert Kalinak in an appearance with the director of the clinic, Miriam Lapuníková. “He had numerous gunshot wounds. At the moment His condition is stabilized, but it is actually very serious.“said Lapuníková, quoted by the newspaper Denník N.

The alleged author, Juraj Cintulais a 71-year-old former security guard, author of three poetry collections and member of the Association of Slovak Writers, who in the past had links with ultranationalist groups. According to a neighbor, Cintula had never expressed extreme political opinions.

The Slovak Prime Minister, after receiving five shots in the abdomen in the middle of the street by an individual last Wednesday, he was subjected to surgery for hours, leaving “very serious” but stable. “Had numerous gunshot wounds. At the moment his condition is stabilized, but it is really very serious,” said the director of the Banská Bystrica hospital, Miriam Lapuníková, quoted by the newspaper. Dennik N.

Now that the prime minister is conscious, although in a delicate state of health, the outgoing president, the liberal Zuzana Caputovadenounced the situation publicly: “We want to urge everyone to have a responsible attitude and to let’s get out of the vicious circle of hatred and mutual accusationsbecause what happened is an individual act, but the tense atmosphere of hatred is our common work.”

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The head of state, who will be replaced next month by Pellegrini, described the crime as “a great human tragedy and an attack on the democratic order”.

“He was an educated man and He was not a big fan of politics as such.but I felt that some of the government’s measures were not correct,” he told Reuters Mile Ludovit, 68, about the perpetrator of the attack. “Some media reports say that already I had been planning it for a monthbut there were no signs of it,” he says.

“He’s a good person”

The media Aktuality.sk cited the son of the ‘lone wolf’ who attacked Fico, who said that his father was the legal holder of a weapons license. “I don’t have the slightest idea what my father intended, what he planned, what happened,” and said that all he could say about his father’s opinions about Fico was that “he didn’t vote for him” and that his father “he was not a psychiatric patient”.

A member of Levice’s ‘Rainbow Literary Club’ told Reuters that the suspect had been one of its founders. In a statement, the club condemned the attack and stated that, as a strictly apolitical group, it had revoked your membership with immediate effect.

Club member Peter Klinko told Reuters that he had last seen the suspect about two years ago. “If I had to describe itI could say in one word that is a good person“, he claimed.